Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's appearance in the Rose Bowl, the stellar young Crimson bucks play Oregon and triumph by one point in a game that goes down in history as Harvard football's first and last stand...
...Someone will always be the vice-president, and someone the president, so one [set of ideas] will always triumph over the other," she says...
...that made him the fifth-highest-paid college president in the country, with salary and benefits that Forbes magazine estimated at $524,000 last year. "Together we have built a wonderful dream," Roche said in his resignation letter. "We have proved that integrity, values and courage can still triumph in a corrupt world." No one answered the door at Roche's home, and he did not return calls seeking comment...
...brighter students realize that such transitory jubilation comes at a price. On the field, there is nothing crueler than a catch unanimously condemned, an uncertain victory leading to a title universally questioned. Fate, in her characteristic irony, has presented Yale with a double-edged sword, a transparent triumph ending in terrible tragedy...
...that precedes the feature. The plot, eventually, is about the communal effort to pull a dragon's head out of a drainpipe. But the fun comes before, as the whole gang cavorts--heads rolling, bodies warping--in a cheery Dadaist vaudeville that echoes Bob Clampett's 1938 Looney Tunes triumph, Porky in Wackyland...