Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KAMPALA, Uganda--Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels, showered with flowers by civilians, entered Uganda's capital in triumph yesterday after a five month war to drive dictator Idi Amin from power...
...Adams looked incipiently satanic. James Monroe's bug-eyed visage might have got him followed by the FBI in the 1960s. Martin Van Buren's sweetly cunning countenance could have belonged to a real estate shark. William Henry Harrison looked bilious. Millard Fillmore at times resembled a triumph of dishevelment. William McKinley, says Edmund Morris in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, seemed the perfect picture of a President - but only "from the neck up." McKinley also owned stumpy legs, pulpy hands and a commanding gaze that was mobilized, says Morris, by a tormented effort "to concentrate a sluggish...
...triumph in the nightcap was without question the Crimson's finest all-around diamond effort since the squad returned North last Sunday. Harvard played errorless baseball for the first time in four games and got a tremendous defensive effort from the infield of Rick Pearce, Burke St. John, Bobby Kelley, and Mark Bingham...
...began to speak in her rambling, stammering, repetitive way. After about twenty minutes of this, I broke in and asked what seems now a rather academic question. I did feel elated at having been able to get something in edgewise, but it turned out to be a decidedly minor triumph. When I finished, she paused and said that my statement had been "superb...
Coach Harry Parker's varsity opened an early lead on the 2000 meter course, expanded the bulge to a length and a half at 1500 meters through the race and cruised to triumph in 6:12.5, ahead of California (6:16.9), Wisconsin (6:20.6), Pennsylvania (6:23.7), Brown (6:24.4) and Navy...