Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chou & Ho. But peace-bitter for the Vietnamese, triumphant for the Communists-was in the air. From India, Nehru cabled Britain's Anthony Eden after his meeting in New Delhi with Red China's Chou Enlai. Little now divided the French from the Chinese, Chou had told Nehru. There would be a line drawn across Viet Nam. Laos and Cambodia would be independent but "neutral." These terms, Chou said, had been accepted by Mendeès-France...
...less than seven years, Chou En-lai had come from a rebel cave in Yenan to triumphant victory over the West on the West's own diplomatic grounds. For however much the U.S. tried to ignore him, however hard Britain tried to soften the ugliness of his victory, Chou last week was on the way to scoring Communism's greatest victory since China fell...
...might be expected, President Stout's comments were less triumphant...
...robust prewar vigor, many a company thinks that the trick is to enlist the aid of its salesmen's wives. International Cellucotton Products Co. puts out a 48-page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced a new gimmick: a telephone-quiz contest...
...Saturday, wearing a black suit and tie of mourning for Dienbienphu's dead, Bidault walked into the Palais des Nations to face his triumphant enemies. He was pale, but he spoke with bitter eloquence. "The decisive assault in a gloriously unequal battle, carried on for 55 days, was launched on the very eve of the date set for this Geneva meeting whose prospect alone should normally have silenced cannon," he said. "We have already known sudden massacres on the morrow of peaceful negotiations, and this is not the first time that actions cruelly give the lie to words...