Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews, Christ was a grave disappointment, a "stumbling block," because He was not "the kind of Messiah who was expected." The Jews wanted their Messiah to be not only good but a national and triumphant hero who would fulfill history from their special point of view. Instead, Jesus shocked the righteous by teaching that they were, in the final judgment, unrighteous...
...Inchball, you have gone and now we must follow. Your innate light alone will join us for that triumphant brawl. Only you, Inch, can pull us out and send us on with your louder copy call. And behind us in the woods we leave the babes, forcing them to scheme for the breath of life. It is over, dear Inch, for us, a raging finger-snap, a dream before the alarm, and we leave behind the children, timidly laughing in the bushes...
When Sam came to the U.S. from his native Poland at the age of nine, he lived up to his triumphant European press clippings by playing 20 U.S. Army officers simultaneously (a contest that gives each opponent 20 times as much time to contemplate each move) without losing a game...
...today, the way through to the triumphant end now seems to be outlined. Yet no one believes it to be an easy road; and the question is--how long--how many years before the end? The kind of world in which you and your generation will spend your days depends in no small measure on the answer to this question. Every day the war continues prolongs, the agony of civilization; every month adds to the chaos with which the post-war world must deal; every year increases the hazards which liberty must encounter when the war is won. Therefore...
...tasks thrust on the 77th Congress; in no other country were the overwhelming chores of global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting, endless...