Word: triumph
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There was good news and bad news in Smith's unexpectedly sweeping triumph. The good news is that the vast majority of whites now seem to agree that only a settlement, and not an intensification of the five-year-old guerrilla war, can solve the crisis. The bad news is that, with his impressive mandate, Smith will be free to seek the kind of settlement he wants-a settlement that Britain and the U.S. are convinced cannot work because it ignores the nationalist factions that are waging war against the white regime...
Since he knew he was not the yachting Establishment's choice, the triumph on its merits was particularly sweet. And Terrible Ted Turner, the bold, brash captain of the revamped 12-meter yacht Courageous, had the champagne ready in Newport when George Hinman, head of the six-member selection committee, came to tell him and his crewmen the news: "Gentlemen, you have been selected to defend the America's Cup." Skipper Turner, 38, a Georgian who owns the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks (TIME, Aug. 8), had won the right to try to retain...
With that swift work, the short, stocky, usually smiling Wang disposed of the leaders of the radicals in the post-Mao struggle for power in China and opened the way for the triumph that Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his so-called moderates celebrated at the eleventh Party Congress. There, Wang also got his reward: he was named one of the four party vice chairmen and placed on the Standing Committee, which runs China's 35 million-member party - and thus the nation itself. Along the way Wang also got a personal encomium from Chairman Hua, who praised...
...Days' projection, reality is pretty grim. The left-wing coalition headed by François Mitterrand, France's Socialist Party leader, and Georges Marchais, boss of the Communist Party, starts out in triumph. The coalition wins a comfortable 293 places in the 490-seat Assembly. But six months later, the new government collapses...
When he returned, Liveright invited Dreiser to lunch and announced his triumph - a movie deal for the sum of $85,000. Dreiser was delighted at the unexpected windfall, but considerably less delighted when he was reminded of Liveright's commission. "Do you mean you're going to take my money?" he asked. "Just at this moment, the waiter brought the coffee in," writes Cerf, the ever faithful reporter. "Suddenly Dreiser seized his cup and threw the steaming coffee in Liveright's face. [He] got up from the table without a word and marched out of the restaurant...