Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tired, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer, only 24 hours out of the sickbed in which he had lain for ten days, smiled broadly over a triumphant glass of champagne. Said he: "This does away with Yalta...
...than surrender with U.S. forces at Bataan in 1942, these U.S. soldiers fled to the jungle and carried on as best they could. Blackburn's Headhunters is the exciting true story of Lieut. Donald Blackburn, one of the handful of Americans to fight through on Luzon to the triumphant end. He survived by dodging north from Manila to hide out among the mountain Igorots, who used to be headhunters and were still not entirely reformed when Blackburn met up with them (other tribes in the vicinity were said to drink the blood and eat the hearts and livers...
Postwar Promotion. Stalin, after the war, shunted aside the triumphant combat soldiers like Zhukov. but Bulganin the policeman-politician-executive rose to Minister of the Armed Forces, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and finally a full member of the Politburo. Medals jangling, he reviews Red Square parades, sometimes on horseback, but more recently, as his weight has increased, in a ZIS limousine. Soviet officers still joke that he does not know the difference between a mortar and a howitzer...
...regimental strength (which would be 2,500 on the Chinese scale). They heavily outnumbered and soon overwhelmed the Nationalists. At dusk, the big Nationalist garrison on Upper Tachen, eight miles away, could still hear machine-gun fire. But later in the night silence fell on Yikiang. Next day the triumphant Reds sent 100 planes to bomb the Tachens-one of the largest raids of the island...
...union in the farm-equipment industry. U.A.W. claims some 19,000 Harvester workers, v. 9,000 for the U.E. The U.A.W. also thinks that it is a sure winner in another contest this week with U.E. for 600 workers at Harvester's Richmond (Ind.) plant. Said a triumphant U.A.W. organizer: "They'll be coming in so fast we'll have to bar the door...