Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promptly arrested, Wintle was triumphant. "It will be a sad day for this country when an officer and gentleman is not prepared to go to prison when he thinks he is in the right," he proclaimed. "One must expect some casualties." Added the fierce little colonel, screwing his mon ocle into his good eye: "I have been accustomed to meeting the enemy and trying to trap him wherever I have...
...Some 30,000 Jehovah's Witnesses descended on New York City for a five-day Triumphant Kingdom Assembly, the fifth of eleven Witness assemblies that will take place throughout the world this year, heard the imminence of Armageddon preached in flower-decked Yankee Stadium, spent their spare time making door-to-door efforts to convert "pagan" New Yorkers. Meanwhile, their brethren in Vermont decided to abandon plans to use Burlington's Memorial Auditorium for a meeting in October after veterans' groups, bristling at the Witnesses' refusal to salute the flag or bear arms, threatened to throw...
...clean broom. But his patriotic heart went out to the defenders, and he finally engraved on his dagger the words: "Death to the French." Still, he lived on the fringes of the invader's court, painted French generals as well as Spanish. He also portrayed the triumphant Wellington, and finally, though with obvious distaste, the returned King Ferdinand VII. Vacillating and bad-tempered though Goya was, no ruler thought of dispensing with his talents. Meanwhile he was recording the horrors of the war in a sketchbook that had no heroes at all, only villains and victims. The etchings...
...July day in 1789, a swarm of sweaty, shouting men armed with muskets, staves and pikes, stormed the grim Bastille, prison of French kings. The triumphant revolutionists proudly drew up a Declaration of Rights "for all men, for all lands, for all times, and to give an example to the world." From that day, in the flood tide of the Enlightenment, France took to itself the role of custodian of liberty and torchbearer to mankind...
...scholars read more of the bricks, they found that the Hittite archives had not been thoroughly screened. In them were records of campaigns not convincingly triumphant. There were even official letters from a powerful nation, Arzawa, which had matched the Hittites blow for blow. Except for these few clues, however, Arzawa vanished from history...