Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undefeated North Carolina continued its triumphant tour of the east by blanking the varsity tennis team yesterday, 11 to 0, on the Soldiers Field courts. Earlier this week the Tar Heels overwhelmed Williams and Amherst...
...Tunisians were jubilant, though some preferred to wait and see. Premier Faure well knew that there were some road mines ahead, since details remain to be settled by the two governments, and the French National Assembly-where the North African colons are powerful-may make trouble. Nevertheless Faure was triumphant. "Some people," he said, "have reproved me for being an immobiliste. What kind of immobilisme is this...
...mislaid). The following year egg rolling was banned because of the war. After the war Mrs. Edith Helm, the White House social secretary, denounced egg rolling as "an orgy of wasted eggs," announced that President Truman would not revive it. But two years ago, egg rolling made a triumphant reappearance at the White House at the suggestion of Mamie Eisenhower, who thought it was a pleasant and harmless old custom. The ground rules of egg rolling are simple enough, but few people know them and fewer observe them. The egg rollers should pair off and one bowls an egg down...
...presumably allow the Russians to march back on the pretext that Germany was threatening an Anschluss. But in the joy of the moment, such considerations were ignored. Thousands of Austrians flocked to the airport to welcome the triumphant travelers. For the first time since Hitler marched in in 1938, Austria was within sight of a time without a foreign soldier on its soil. Cheering crowds lined the 20-mile route to Vienna, crowded the square outside the chancellery. Twice, Raab had to come out and speak. Some in the crowd wept, and Chancellor Raab's voice broke with emotion...
...world's chief repository of early Byzantine art, surpassing even Istanbul, the capital of Byzantium. The ancient churches and chapels of the sleepy Italian town (pop. 35,000) are lit by windowpanes of translucent alabaster and by the glitter and blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses the exuberant youth...