Word: triumph
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...achievement of Taylor and his colleagues, Peter M. McCulloch and Lee A. Fowler, was a triumph of radio astronomy. In 1974, while scanning the heavens with the giant bowl-shaped radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the researchers detected rhythmic radio signals from the constellation Aquila. The bursts were coming from a pulsar, or rapidly rotating neutron star-the incredibly compressed cadaver of a giant star whose nuclear fires have died out. Some 15,000 light-years away, it apparently was in orbit around a second compact object, perhaps another neutron star or even a black hole, whose gravity...
Bacall's autobiographical voice is not so sultry, seductive or worldly. "I am in love with the Arch of Triumph-aside from the Lincoln Memorial, it is the most moving monument my heart has beat to ... We returned to Rome to prepare for our audience with the Pope. With my Jewish background, I was ill prepared ... Bogie, Ted Moore, the camera operator, the Captain and I went fishing on Lake Albert. I caught a five-pound Nile perch and threw it back, just loved catching...
Michael Bierer began the onslaught, slashing his way to a 5-0 victory. Robert Homer followed with a second sabre triumph. Bierer's second win clinched the match for the Crimson and the swordsmen then tested some new talent...
...final quarter, the Bombers outscored the hoopsters, 20-13, but a Crimson squad made up mostly of substitutes held on for the 62-51 triumph...
...SATAN DEAD? This stark headline on the cover of London's prestigious Economist was typical of the foreign press reaction to the Jonestown massacre. As so often happens in moments of great American triumph or tragedy, the world press gasped, grimaced and then gushed forth explanations. Several foreign weeklies published long stories on both the deaths of 911 Peoples Temple members and on the general phenomenon of cults in the U.S. Surprisingly, only the Communist press used Jonestown as an occasion for lashing at U.S. society as a whole...