Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three days, Shepherd has been haunting the A & A, awaiting the arrival, by Greyhound bus from Salt Lake City, of a part for his brown Triumph sports car. The Triumph suffered a blown head gasket after pulling a U-Haul trailer up one mountain grade too many. Shepherd wears his hair long, sports a scraggly beard, an earring in his left ear lobe and a gold marijuana leaf in his collar. He is going to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will study molecular biology. He is impatient to leave Evanston, this cowboy and oil town where they...
...magnitude of their triumph was evident as the three leaders spoke in turn Sunday night in the gold and crystal East Room of the White House where some 400 Congressmen, Cabinet members and the trio's staff had hastily assembled. His face ashen with fatigue but punctuated by repeated smiles, Carter announced the broad outlines of the two agreements, declaring, "My hope is that the promise of this moment will be fulfilled." Sadat, initially somber, was almost reverential in his praise of Carter for calling the summit. Said he: "You took a gigantic step...
...discussions. He has felt free to offer suggestions as they seem to be appropriate." The style and tempo of the summit, in fact, recalled Carter's long pursuit of the presidency: a stubborn, dogged approach to tough issues and an assumption that sheer strength and determination must eventually triumph...
...recent high school grad, Kenny (Mark Hamill), who leaves home for Vegas after his prized Stingray is stolen. While chasing down the car, he meets up with a prattling, fledgling hooker (Annie Potts) who initiates him into sex. Suffice it to say that love and virtue eventually triumph over pimps and car thieves...
...bill this week, as is expected, a lot of people are going to be very happy. Senators will have cleared their desks of a major legislative headache which has dawdled in the halls of the Capitol for the past 17 months. President Carter, fresh from a week of possible triumph at Camp David, will have won a major victory in his fight to establish a national energy policy. And our anxious European neighbors will be reassured that America is serious about streamlining its wasteful patterns of energy consumption, and shoring up the declining dollar...