Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, no matter how spectacular Galindo is in Canada, it will be tough to match his triumph before the home folks. It was one of those ineffable moments when the audience sensed almost from the start that this athlete is triumphant, truly unbeatable. He seemed to fly through the long program, set to the surging, romantic music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Dick Button, the unflappable ABC commentator, shouted, "Now that's guts." His less experienced microphone partner, Brian Boitano, was reduced to giggles of delight. Ken Shelley, the last man to win the nationals in both single and pairs...
...DOLE WON A GREAT victory last week, and it wasn't in South Carolina. That win was sweet, but necessary and expected, just like North and South Dakota on Tuesday. His greater triumph was a secret one, in a private struggle to settle his fate as it rests in the hands of his party allies. Hidden somewhere, on their desks or in their dreams, every Republican chieftain has a list. They've had them ever since Dole began losing primaries, or winning with two-thirds of his party voting against him. They rank the men who could come...
Anti-institutional populism, it seems, is a bad thing when it threatens the Republican triumph of 1994. But was it "corrosive" in the years leading up to 1994? If any Republican said so, I never heard it. Systematic inculcation of popular hatred for "government," for "bureaucrats," for "Washington," for "Congress,'' for "elites" was an overt--and brilliantly successful--part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Long March strategy for taking over the House. More generally, it became a reflexive part of the Republican political language. Sitting on cnn's Crossfire for six years, most of them opposite Pat Buchanan, I heard...
...Saturday's 55-52 triumph over Yale, Feaster almost single-handedly prevented a Crimson letdown, notching 21 points and seven rebounds in the victory...
...followed this effort up the next day with an impressive 6-3, 6-4 triumph that helped Harvard defeat the Blue Devils, who were ranked 6th in the nation...