Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while the triumphant networks lord it over admen and sponsors, a celluloid cloud looms threateningly in the West. If TV's entertainment remains mostly live, Manhattan will be its source and Broad way its inspiration. Should TV go to film, the bulk of the industry will shift to Hollywood-as radio did before it. Some pessimists see the day not far off when 70% of TV shows will be movies (currently, about 35% is filmed...
...manners to be good at war work and the impertinence to find it distasteful. The public thinks that he has no conscience, and his security officer fears that he has two consciences . . . He is unhappy between his scientific creed and his social loyalty: between, that is, the long and triumphant tradition of open publication, and a society which still hopes to survive by the peasant adage, 'Least said, soonest mended...
George Exintaris, the Greek representative, retorted: "Any government can prevent a mob from running wild." Tiney answered: "The Communists had a hand in stirring up the mobs." Greece's Exintaris, with a triumphant gleam in his eyes, protested: "But I thought you had eradicated Communism in Turkey...
...flared-up foot injury might have caused a slowdown. The injury will require surgery; Swaps will probably be out of racing until December. But Swaps's misfortunes did not dim Nashua's victory, which raised his earnings for Owner William Woodward Jr. to $882,565. Said triumphant Old Master Arcaro, who had ridden one of the shrewdest races of his 24 years in the saddle: "Nashua did everything that Mr. Fitz and I planned...
...class, earned letters in football and tennis, and was captain of the debating team. He won a medal in naval architecture, received a $50 prize awarded by the Daughters of the American Revolution for being the best student in naval science. His graduation should have been triumphant. But last week came a blow. The Navy Department advised the Academy that it would not give Eugene Landy the ensign's reserve commission that usually goes with an Academy degree...