Word: triumphal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations General Assembly has reluctantly voted a mild, almost anemic resolution condemning--no, not even condemning--expressing "grave concern" over "reported" repressions in Tibet. The Communist Chinese, chastened by this stinging rebuke, will no doubt immediately withdraw their forces, and the bespectacled Dalai Lama will soon make a triumphal re-entry into Lhasa, with Life magazine on the scene to cover the event with the same breathless fervor it devoted to his "miraculous escape...
...there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion; the Macmillan government was basking in the new Anglo-American warmth generated by President Eisenhower's triumphal tour. Even the Queen's prospective baby and the sensationally brilliant summer seemed to count in the government's favor. Macmillan, complained Labor Party Chairman Barbara Castle, was "rushing to the country in a suntan election to mobilize the heat-wave vote...
...final week of Dwight Eisenhower's triumphal procession through Europe was also the week of the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in Europe. By a fateful progression of events that spanned an era, the man who commanded the victorious Western armies, the man who as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, forged the shield that protected recovery from that war, was the man who as U.S. President was the walking symbol of the West's hopes for an American-led future. "That man couldn't do wrong if he tried," said...
...opportunity to the utmost. Although the Queen's representative, the Earl of Gosford. was on hand as a symbol of the head of state to greet Eisenhower at the airport, it was the Prime Minister who suavely climbed into the limousine to share Ike's first triumphal tour of London. And on television with his famous guest, Macmillan took advantage of the fact that Ike could do little other than nod politely as the Prime Minister dropped debonair references to his own visit with Khrushchev, British distaste for U.S. tariffs on woolen goods and a clutch of other...
Last week, as they have each year in the thousands of years since the time of legendary King Indradyumna, the three gods made their triumphal procession from their temple at Puri to their summer house, a mile away down a broad avenue. It was an awesome sight. For Jagannath is the famous Juggernaut, riding the vast cart beneath whose creaking wheels fanatic worshipers once threw themselves to be crushed to death...