Word: triumphal
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...Legend has it that Marlene Dietrich once had a record made consisting of nothing but snippets of applause from her triumphal concerts in Europe. Opening a six-week run of her one-woman show in Manhattan last week, Marlene garnered enough adoring acclaim to make an album. The bravos began before the curtain rose, and there were screams of joy after every encore as ecstatic young men in tight trousers pranced down the aisles to toss bouquets of roses upon the stage...
...Roman crowds shouted, "Viva De Gaulle!" As the guests and their Italian hosts walked from a ceremony in the Palazzo dei Conservatori through Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, the other European leaders and Eurocrats trailed behind le grand Charles like captive barbarians in one of Caesar's triumphal parades...
...trailing a special kind of glory. World War I and service in France had given the winsome Edward a rare chance as Prince of Wales to mingle with all manner of his future subjects - and they with him. After the war, he traveled the world on a series of triumphal grand tours from Africa to India to the U.S. and New Zealand - representing his father, who ruled the mightiest empire ever assembled...
Even though Saud had refrained from any political statements until last week, Feisal cut off Saud's princely pension as soon as he arrived in Egypt and embraced Nasser. His three-day triumphal "state visit" to Yemen was all the more ironical because it was Saud who in 1962 pledged Saudi Arabian support for the royalist guerrillas, who now hold two-thirds of the country and are waging a bloody civil war against Sallal's republicans and the 40,000 Egyptian troops allied with them. Now Saud ridicules the royalists as "conceited fellows," denounces Feisal, who gives them...
Nkrumah has avoided the cage. He is ensconced in a seaside villa in the Guinean capital of Conakry, 980 miles from Accra, where he studies French, carries on a voluminous correspondence with his remaining admirers and hatches schemes for a triumphal return. Though Sékou Touré, Guinea's leader, has distinctly cooled on his initial offer to share power and prestige with Nkrumah, he continues to give Nkrumah sanctuary. Nkrumah's presence is thus still felt in Ghana, especially by the military men of the National Liberation Council who now run the country...