Word: triumph
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Former Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger '50 praised Sadat and Begin for their efforts to bring peace to the Mideast. "By their courage they have demonstrated the moral fact that the greatest triumph of peoples lies not in their victories over other nations, but in the reconciliations," Kissinger said in a statement early yesterday...
...stickwomen raised their record to 3-1 yesterday with a 1-0 triumph over their Bruin counterparts. Freshman Debbie Aronson notched the Crimson's only tally in the first half...
...baked for four hours. The very special guest is allowed to break open the potterized poultry with a golden hammer. In Kweilin's Li River Hotel, the aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble a squirrel, hence the dish is announced in advance by one interpreter as "tree rat," provoking preprandial nausea among several F.F.s...
What members of these factions forget is that they are citizens not of a cause but of a country of many causes. The adamant attitude that gives some motorists victory on the expressway may well propel some other faction to triumph on another issue - environment, conservation, name it - in a way the motorist might deplore...
Large and small pressure groups or activist groups are exercising their new muscle legally even when they stray beyond the bounds of civility, as they frequently do. Nobody questions their right to behave as they do, and even critics who recall with distaste the triumph of the zealous temperance crusade that, in 1919, got the Prohibition amendment passed could cite occasions when dedicated dissident groups have served the nation's higher interests admirably. Indeed, today's factional enthusiasm is usually tracked to two such instances: the civil rights movement and the anti-Viet Nam War movement...