Word: triumph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sociobiology may apply to ants, but your article reveals it as just another pop simplification when it is extended to people. Rational theories of human behavior have to be flexible enough to account for both a Stevie Wonder, able to triumph over being blind as well as black, and a Patty Hearst, so much a creature of her environment that she seems to have no genes...
...treaty is very much a compromise ?neither a triumph nor a defeat for either side. Not only does it settle a nagging quarrel with Panama, it also removes a major irritant in U.S. relations with Latin America, which regards American control of the canal as a humiliating relic of the colonial era. It also assured continued U.S. control over a long transitional period; there is to be no radical, overnight shift of authority. Said Escobar: "Getting control of the Canal Zone and the canal is one of Panama's oldest national desires. To generation after generation of Panamanians...
...almost impossible to believe that any real life could so unerringly follow the classic lines of so many biopix past. The cheerfully determined young man struggling to support his family while trying to fulfill his ambitions, the opposition from the Establishment in his field, the early heartbreaks, the ultimate triumph-all this is the familiar stuff of a hundred celluloid dreams that have been sold to us as the real goods on popular contemporary heroes...
...successful has Carter's human rights policy been? If its aim is to burnish the U.S. image abroad, the policy has been a great triumph in many regions. From Latin America, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that among the people?but not the officials?Carter is fast becoming as admired as the much venerated John Kennedy. Notes a leading opposition politician in Chile: "The U.S. is now in the forefront of the fight for freedom and has once again assumed moral and spiritual leadership...
...crew through 19 tacks on the last 2½mile leg. Each of the grueling changes in direction and shifts in the set of the sails was perfectly timed by Turner and flawlessly executed by the crew; at the finish, a 17-second deficit had become a 43-second triumph...