Word: triumphal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead of to Dacca or some closer neutral point? "Don't you know I was a prisoner?" Mujib snapped. "It was the Pakistan government's will, not mine." While in London, he said, he hoped to meet with British Prime Minister Edward Heath before leaving for a triumphal return to Bangladesh...
KISSINGER'S return to Harvard was at once triumphal and antagonizing. He now had an immense coterie of associates, contacts, and patron saints in the outside world. His calendar was always full, and he continually angered students and colleagues by postponing their appointments as many as four or five times in a row. The unattractive twin pillars of his personality-insecurity coupled with unlimited intellectual arrogance-had been reinforced by the competitions and successes in the outside world...
...trip was not all triumphal procession, however. In the U.S., Morita ran into a storm of ill will, stirred up by a Government finding that "Japanese manufacturers" have been dumping TV sets?selling them in the U.S. at prices below those charged in Japan. For the time being, Morita says, Sony must post a 9% deposit with Washington on every TV set that it imports. Morita concedes that some Japanese TV makers practice dumping, but he insists that his company is not among them and contends that 'U.S. Treasury officials admitted as much to him. "Although we are innocent...
...Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family's businesses and foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much of Dr. Robert H. Goddard's pioneering research in rocketry. Recruited into public service on several occasions, Guggenheim served as Ambassador to Cuba from 1929 to 1933, then during World War II went into naval aviation...
silence, toward A triumphal chant only she can hear...