Word: triumphal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sojourn in Vienna for treatment of a duodenal ulcer, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 61, returned to his desert capital of Riyadh last week. At the airport he received full honors and an embrace from his half-brother and heir, Crown Prince Feisal. But it was hardly a triumphal homecoming, for Saud is now no more than a figurehead ruler...
Says he: "We cannot find comfort in any idea that the Communist regime is going to be overthrown or converted to our beliefs. For the foreseeable future, the leaders in the Kremlin are going to be guided by their firm faith in the triumphal spread of their doctrine across the globe. On the other hand, I do not think that the present Soviet leaders will bring on war except by miscalculation or mistake. But we must dismiss as a pleasant daydream any thought of peaceful coexistence and apply ourselves to the challenge of all-out competitive coexistence-competition for survival...
Nonexistent Ally. While his nation suffered, Yemen's President Sallal was on a triumphal tour of the Middle East. Though plagued by conspiracies at home-he crushed two "imperialist" plots in his own regime before leaving-Sallal got tremendous ovations from street crowds in Damascus and Baghdad. In lordly style, he urged the Baathist leaders of Syria and Iraq to disperse the "summer cloud" of their differences with Egypt's Nasser, and grandly offered the virtually nonexistent Yemen republican army as an ally in repulsing "Zionist and imperialist aggressors...
...blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell to America, joyous peasants stand waving in the courtyards of thatched cottages, little girls pelt the hero with flowers, Washington says "And now we part, Mushoor luh Markee," and all that is missing is toasts in Pouilly-Fuisse...
...Kennedy Administration, it seemed that spring 1963 might be balmy. There were the usual world tensions and domestic disputes. But there were no really burning crises. And the President, fresh from a triumphal visit to Central America, was at his jauntiest...