Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother for protection from the "evil spirits" that appeared on his drawing paper. With age, he came to feel at home in his dream world of huge, dim forces, and was able to say, with none of the smugness of the dispassionate, that "evil must not be a triumphant or confounding enemy, but a constructive force, a co-factor in creation and development...
...their coup d'état and set up their Marxist-Leninist dictatorship in 1917, Vishinsky was running a Menshevik soup kitchen in the Zamoskvoretsky district. For three tough years, little was heard of Andrei Yanuarevich. Then in 1920 the civil war ended, and he was admitted to the triumphant Russian Communist Party. It was a switch many thousands of people in the professional classes, facing starvation or physical liquidation, made at that time. But it set him apart from the old Bolsheviks; he was for a long time suspect...
...around town faster than the biggest Page One story. In Denver offices clippings were passed from hand to hand; secretaries read it over the telephone to each other. Husbands returning home from work had it thrust upon them by their wives, all of whom seemed to have a triumphant gleam in their eyes. By wire service the letter was sent around the U.S. TV stations picked...
...Boston on a wave of hippo enthusiasm led by the Post, which collected subscriptions for him. On June 24, 1922 he arrived at Franklin Park, was dubbed "Happy" by Mrs. James Curley and then ceremoniously installed in what is now the seal tank of the Zoo. Since that triumphant day, though, his path trailed steadily downward. When he first came, photographers from the newspapers trooped to catch him performing, but he was generally too busy lolling in his tank to pose and finally they left him in peace. Happy lounged around the Zoo for almost three decades before...
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went to London the leader of an occupied country. He returned last week proudly bearing pledges of restored sovereignty for his people and equality for his country in the company of free nations. But the triumphant traveler came home to no public jubilation, no dancing in the streets, no volleys of cheers...