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Word: triumphant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberace emerged from London's Palladium after his triumphant first show, a 17-year-old girl distinguished herself by fainting; when she came to, he was solicitously kneeling over her. She promptly fainted again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Liberace & the Nonbelievers | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...with all the fury of a maddened cat, shift to grotesque satire, or acquire the quality of jagged hallucination as in his Phantasma (see cut') which depicts a phosphorescent feminine specter who seems perched uninvited on the window ledge. Closed in Mexico City last week. Tamayo's triumphant show will be seen next month at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Numero Uno | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...last Israeli soldier crossed back into Israel. Triumphant, they rolled through the first village singing mambo tunes. "A piece of cake," crowed one. With them the soldiers brought booty -captured guns, jeeps, armored cars. The casualties: eight Israeli soldiers killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Five Eyes for an Eye | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...first time, show that, as she grew out of those girlish fears, she also grew to be courageously at home in the world. Her courage is often colored with resignation, she is still looking for answers and praying for strength, but these poems are, on the whole, triumphant celebrations of life, love, death and, through them all, the "beauty of earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Better than Biscuits | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Regional Readings. Came the weekend, and so, too, came Estes Kefauver, fresh from a triumphant homecoming in Madisonville, Tenn. (where he expressed his homespun concern that "bigness is encroaching on Main Street"). The Keef's arrival in Libertyville prompted a new decree by Jim Finnegan: henceforth, Estes will be welded to Adlai with a hyphen, thereby assuring the proper identity of the Stevenson-Kefauver "team." This week teammates and staff climbed aboard a chartered DC-7, headed out on a week-long trip. Purpose: 1) to take regional readings from politicos in the Southwest, Northwest, Middle West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: All Aboard | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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