Word: triumph
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Your story on the recent voting in Spain appears to equate the victory of Premier Adolfo Suárez, rather than the election itself, with the triumph of Spanish democracy...
Compliments on the lucid and realistic Essay [June 27] on South Africa. It is reassuring to read an appraisal of a highly complex problem and find it free of the rhetoric and hostility emanating from Washington in recent days. Perhaps sanity will yet triumph and an effort will be made to engage the South African people in a dialogue that recognizes human rights...
...more outs. Baloff did just that, but two sloppy fielding plays, events which nobody had seemed to expect or worry about during the other 25 games of the season, were made the in the infield and Cornell clinched victory for itself and disqualification for Harvard with a 4-3 triumph...
With profound pride Spanish newspapers hailed the election as a "triumph of moderation" and praised the orderly way in which it was conducted. At week's end, after most of the votes were finally tallied, a Madrid intellectual expressed the emotions of his countrymen. "There is," he said, "deep down, a happiness about this transition, about the possibility of taking political consensus in hand. Now our people have got to decide to live together and to disagree in a civilized...
Resplendent in a powder-blue dress, her red hair immaculately coiffed, the woman of the hour flashed a dazzling smile of triumph. "The 'normal majority' have said, "Enough! Enough! Enough!' " Singer Anita Bryant told cheering supporters and newsmen in Miami Beach. "Tonight, the laws of God and the cultural values of men have been vindicated." By a smashing 2-t01 majority, the voters of Dade County had just endorsed Bryant's fervent crusade for the repeal of an ordinance outlawing discrimination against homosexuals in housing, unemployment and public accommodations. To celebrate their victory in last week...