Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born John Barkham . . . And from buzz-bombed Britain comes the man who has been our top correspondent there almost continuously since 1938 (except for his five critical months in Russia as head of our Moscow office and the month he spent jeeping across North Africa with Montgomery's triumphant Eighth Army) -London Bureau Chief Walter Graebner...
...three or four days or more it was a struggle to prevent a hideous massacre in the center of Athens in which all forms of Government would have been swept away and naked, triumphant Trotskyism installed. I think Trotskyism is a better definition of Greek Communist and certain other sects than the normal word. It has the advantage of being equally hated in Russia...
...newspaper accounts from the triumphant FBI, residents of James Street quickly learned more about their neighbor: he was a naturalized citizen, and a Lutheran pastor for more than 20 years in northern New Jersey, until a trip to Germany in 1941. In Berlin, said the FBI, he had talked with Walter Kappe, boss of the Nazi saboteur school. When he returned to the U.S. (via Barcelona, nine days after Pearl Harbor) he quit the pulpit, became a bookkeeper...
...Kingdom never grows tedious. Toward the end it produces two very moving scenes of farewell-one, beautifully and quietly acted, between the priest and a nun (Rosa Stradner), the other, the priest's simple and eloquent farewell to his congregation and to the whole of his remote, triumphant life...
Franklin Roosevelt replied in kind. The resignation, he wrote, "has hit me between wind and water." To Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull is "Father of the United Nations," and he hoped that Cordell Hull would be able to preside when the first, triumphant United Nations assembly is held. The man who had directed U.S. foreign affairs for twelve years-longer by four years than any other man in history-will continue, the President said, to be a sort of White House adviser...