Word: triumphalism
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...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...
...Second World War had a certain ghastly symmetry. In order to repel Hitler, it had been necessary to call in the two monsters from the East and from the West. Russia and America are not states, in the sense that France and Italy are states; they are continents. Their triumphal meeting on the Elbe permanently erased the independence of Europe, which lay exhausted and bewildered between them. At almost the same time, Europe's writ over the southern two thirds of the world expired...
...schedule: strikes and violence, student uprisings, attacks on army garrisons, the assassination of armed forces leaders, and a triumphal May Day parade proclaiming a "farmer-worker state...
...price of victory was high: 7,811 Allied casualties. Worse, the defense at Salerno revitalized the Germans, delighting Hitler and encouraging him to pour more German troops into Italy. What was expected to be a triumphal march north through a beaten Italy became a slogging, tortuous, year-long campaign that repeatedly stalled and finally sputtered to a stop just north of Florence, cost 350,000 Allied lives before it was over...
...Detroit, it was a shiny, triumphal week. Even the Cuban crisis, which forced Vice President Lyndon Johnson to cancel out as the chief speaker at a black-tie dinner of the auto industry's top brass, hardly diminished the excitement of the 44th National Automobile Show. Most of the million people who passed through cavernous Cobo Hall during the course of the week cheerily ignored the corny musical revue, in which leggy girls and toothy boys noisily attempted to equate car buying and patriotism ("Drive, you eagle, drive,/Hooray for the bright new day,/ Hooray for the U.S.A...