Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoy under their new treaty, and certain specific economic concessions. It was agreed that Spain's 100,000-man army, whose native troops will eventually become part of the Sultan's own army, would remain in Morocco in Spanish hands for the time being. It was a triumphant and happy day for Mohammed V, who can now count himself ruler of a united land of 9,000,000 people...
...Tunis cheering Moslems by the thousands turned out in the streets to welcome Nationalist Leader Habib Bourguiba back from Paris. In his pocket, the triumphant Neo-Destour party leader carried a protocol, in which the French government officially recognized his nation's independence. But even this triumph was not enough. "It is inconceivable," said Bourguiba, "that Tunisia on one side and Morocco on the other should enjoy independence while Algeria, which lies between them, remains under the colonialist yoke...
...Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed Egypt's Minister of State: "We Arabs are no more a merchandise to be bought and sold in the market of domination and imperialism. Never again will anybody lead Arab forces in defense of honor...
...ruthless service. The measure of U.S. unreadiness can easily be taken by anyone who remembers the near contempt with which German subs sank ships in broad daylight within sight of the East Coast. How quickly Allied brains and guts turned the tide can be read in Morison's triumphant figures: of nearly 13,000 ships that sailed the North Atlantic in convoy in 1944, only 13 were sent to the bottom...
Kefauver, whose decision climaxed a triumphant threeday, 800-mile stump of Wisconsin, figured he had everything to gain and Stevenson everything to lose. A Stevenson defeat, with nearly every top Minnesota Democrat backing him, could be his Waterloo. Even a fairly strong showing by Estes would tarnish Adlai's luster...