Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to win a majority for the first time in Pakistan's eight years as a nation. The Moslem League took its worst beating in overcrowded East Pakistan (pop. 42 million), which has never cottoned to being dominated by distant Karachi, 1,000 miles across India. Emerging triumphant in East Pakistan was the United Front of fat, cantankerous, 83-year-old Fazlul Huq, whom the government ousted last year as provincial chief minister of East Pakistan on the ground of separatist "treasonable activities." Unable to suppress him, the Moslem League now decided to join him. The League...
...When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house one night only to find Argyll there before him. When Wellington knocked, Harriette dressed Argyll in her nightcap and dressing gown and sent him to the window to tell the conqueror to be off-as the hussy must have...
...policemen to Algeria, bringing the French forces there to 100.000-20,000 more than the French expeditionary force remaining in Indo-China. "Repression will be pitiless," warned Minister of the Interior Maurice Bourges-Maunoury. Grappling with the Tunisian problem, Faure talked Bourguiba into postponing his scheduled triumphant return to Tunis after three years of exile, and ordered negotiations for a final settlement resumed immediately...
...even the appearance of Marilyn Monroe made such a hit in Japan. The new, triumphant visitor: New York City's Symphony of the Air, Arturo Toscanini's former orchestra, which has been looking for a job ever since the maestro's retirement. Occupation for the next six weeks: U.S. cultural ambassador abroad...
...Easter eve 1945, a sick but triumphant actress stepped into her dressing room in Manhattan's Playhouse theater. This opening night of The Glass Menagerie had proved what many critics and theatergoers had long believed: that Laurette Taylor was one of America's great actresses. Among the flowers and the telegrams stood a bottle of Scotch, the gift of testy Critic George Jean Nathan. It was a special kind of a tribute, and Laurette understood. She wired: "Thanks for the vote of confidence...