Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffering not from a lack, but from an excess of support. Congress was well aware that the commitment had been made. They could only examine the books, and assess its achievements. Was EGA succeeding? The Administration's answer was a triumphant...
...Like a triumphant general retiring to winter quarters, CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley last week stepped aboard a plane bound for Jamaica, B.W.I...
...Missouri reception, Truman introduced some thing new in presidential handshaking. He wished, he said, that everyone could go home and say he's shaken the President's hand. So, he instructed, everyone "hold your hands up like this" -clasping his hands like a triumphant boxer. The folks liked it fine...
...Democrats it was a triumphant week. Once again they were in charge of the congressional household which they had dominated for 14 years, from 1933 to 1947. There was more than office furniture to be moved around. The Republicans, in their two brief years of power, had also disarranged a lot of Democratic political furniture (e.g., labor laws and tax bills), and the Democrats were determined to put-them back in place...
Last week the school board's Committee on Hand Washing and Drying Facilities, formed to look into such matters, made a triumphant report of progress: the city had set aside $100,000 to provide soap and paper towels for 143,000 kindergarten and first-grade pupils. Could the 740,000 other unwashed New York City youngsters, from second grade to senior high, look to a cleaner, brighter future too? Said the committee's secretary guardedly: "We have hopes...