Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first varsity fours rowed to easy victory with the help of a tail current for a 7.8-second victory over Syracuse and an 18.2-second triumph over Dartmouth with a time...
...that the interloper's identity was a surprise would be tantamount to saying that Duke's 1990 Final Four triumph over UNLV was a minor upset, for behind that mask was none other than baseball's career hit leader, Pete Rose...
...defeat. To save himself, he had to knuckle under to international diplomacy. Ever ready to discard what has become harmful, he dropped his backing for Serb kin in the breakaway state, eventually making peace at their expense at Dayton in 1995. He turned this humiliation into another kind of triumph when he paraded on the world stage as a peacemaker equal to the superpower leaders negotiating with him. Yet he was no more a man of peace than he was a communist or nationalist. He simply did what he had to do to stay in power...
This change was planned before the Oscar disappointment, but certainly DreamWorks would have preferred to make the announcement while flush with triumph. Parkes, however, insists DreamWorks is triumphant enough after a strong year at the box office, with hits including Deep Impact and Saving Private Ryan. The company also scored nicely with Antz, its first animated film. And though Katzenberg did not have the giant smash he yearned for with Prince of Egypt, the picture will gross $100 million...
...sophisticated view of what is meant by "empty space," which turns out not to be empty at all. There are also serious philosophical problems created by the Big Bang, which can be described but not explained. Worse, nobody has been able to reconcile quantum physics with the other great triumph of 20th century physics: Einstein's theory of gravitation. Until that is done, the true nature of our universe will remain beyond...