Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while he was still ostensibly editor of Pravda, hulking Dmitry Shepilov earned himself an overnight reputation as a diplomat by setting up Egypt's arms deal with the Communists. Accordingly, when Shepilov, now Soviet Foreign Minister, set out three weeks ago to revisit the scene of his original triumph, European chancelleries nervously braced themselves for further Soviet coups...
...hands atop Port Said's Navy House, last headquarters of the once-mighty British naval base in Suez. The British, naturally reluctant to officiate at their own funeral, had quietly withdrawn their last troops before the evacuation deadline, but Gamal Abdel Nasser was undeterred in his triumph. Cried he: "This generation of Egyptian people has an appointment with destiny, privileged to see with its own eyes the remnants of the foreign invaders sneak out, back to where they came from." A 21-gun salute boomed from one of the two heavy destroyers just acquired from Soviet Russia...
...done less well in grappling with the ancient miseries of one of the world's poorest countries. By making his deal for Communist arms, Nasser had ended Egypt's dependence on the West and established himself as a hero in the Arab world. But it was a triumph that had a price: it put his dealings with the U.S. on a basis that. was sometimes not far from blackmail, and as a result removed some of his idealist sheen in U.S. eyes...
Those fabulous nippy football Saturdays, with their Crimson in triumph flashing, usually called to my attention that the girl of my dreams was sitting in the same stadium with someone else...
...dash title at Randalls Island, N.Y., University of Pennsylvania Sprinter Johnny Haines warmed up for the Olympic tryouts by taking a crack at the 220-yd. and 440-yd. dashes. He won both (his times: 0:20.5 and 0:47.3). Not since Ray Barbuti prepared for his Olympic triumph by turning the trick in 1928 has anyone run off with these same two titles...