Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picked up by radio in Katmandu, the brief message was rushed to Nepal's new King, Mahendra. While the invading Japanese still struggled toward his Himalayan capital down the dangerous, snow-covered slopes of their triumph last week, Mahendra ordered his subjects to prepare a proper reception. Not since the collapse of their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" had any Japanese been greeted as conquerors. But now three of them had become the first to top Manaslu, world's ninth tallest mountain (26,658 ft.) and one of the toughest to climb...
Fresh from triumph as concerto soloist with the Pierian, sophomore David Hurwitz gave sonata recital on May 11 in Adams Dining Hall. Topnotch violin playing in solid Hindemith and Beethoven works, despite an occasional uneven bowing. Intonation accurate, tone never forced. Molds beautiful lines with much care; has great insight into phrasing of the music. A real musician's violinist in the best Mischa Elman tradition. For my money, the finest undergraduate violinist here in at least ten years; has the stuff of which great fiddlers are made. Jonathan Thackeray his partner at the piano. Formidable technique, but tended...
When Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn returned to Washington from their triumph over Governor Allan Shivers in the Texas Democratic conventions...
...Adenauer stood bareheaded in a drizzling rain to watch the flag of the Federal Republic raised for the first time. His nation, a decade before the smoking ruins of Hitler's Reich, was accepted in the world again, largely because of him. This was his moment of triumph...
EXPRESSIONISM, the theory which holds that nature must be remodeled to reflect the artist's own inner vision, has often proved more trap than triumph. But for a favored few it has provided the channel to a new freedom in 20th century art, a fact strikingly demonstrated by the two hit shows of the current Paris season: a two-month-long retrospective of the late Russian-born Chaim Soutine, and the current full-scale retrospective for doughty, 80-year-old Maurice de Vlaminck...