Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asks what the schools of this country have accomplished in the last fifty years, one need only refer for answer to the American Army and Navy in these days of triumphant battle...
Effendis and fellahin gossiped excitedly about the news, wondered if Nationalist Nahas Pasha's dismissal might be connected with the Pan-Arab conference, which wound up its sessions in Alexandria last week. Nahas's downfall had come just a day after his triumphant radio message to the Arab peoples of the Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, he announced, had agreed to join a League of Independent Arab States "to achieve the welfare of all Arab countries and safeguard their independence against all aggression." Had Pan-Arabia been born at last...
Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America-a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade-and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer...
...managing editor of its newspaper, Avanti! ("Forward!"), the former school teacher and lawyer Ivanoe Bonomi. His successor : Benito Mussolini. In 1922, mild-mannered, politically independent Bonomi lost the job of Premier which he had held for eight stormy months. His successor: Mussolini. In obscurity during the era of Fascism Triumphant, Avvocato Bonomi eked out a living by ghosting routine briefs for young lawyers whose principal juristic equipment was a Black Shirt. Enter the Northerners. Last week, to the Grand Hotel in Rome came the leaders of the Socialists, Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Communists, Liberals and the Action Party...
...show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years it has coyly flirted with lusty, callow, sometimes triumphant...