Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's postwar battle with the Air Force ended abruptly last week, with the airmen slow-rolling overhead in triumphant victory. Less than a week after the centerplates had been dropped into the keel of the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson issued a curt order "discontinuing construction of the vessel . . . at the least possible cost to the Government."" The decision meant only one thing: from now on the Air Force will take care of long-range strategic bombing; the Navy will be. held to the job of keeping the overseas supply lines open...
...Navy's Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
Outside the courtroom he stood around smiling but narrow-eyed, shaking hands and receiving the adulation of the party faithful. No matter whether he was acquitted or convicted this was the triumphant climax of a career of 20 years. Whatever he felt in his innermost heart, like his father, he kept his own counsel. At each court day's end, he stepped along the marble corridor, hulking and heavy-footed, walking down his own dark tunnel...
Year after year, for 1,880 years, wherever their wanderings took them, the Jews of the Diaspora have prayed at Passover time: "Next year-in Jerusalem." This year, they were emphatically in Jerusalem. In the ancient city the Israelis celebrated a triumphant Passover...
London's independent Economist wrote icily: "Fustian and bromide . . . [The program] will cause some stirrings in the Socialist graveyards ..." The Liberal Manchester Guardian sniffed: "Skillful patchwork . . . but the triumphant Socialist spirit has evaporated...