Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential box mounted perceptibly, and in the tenth, when Washington's Mickey Vernon finally polished off the game ( 5-3) with a sizzling home run over the right-field fence, Ike stood up and pounded his fist in his hand, and Mamie hugged and kissed Griffith. As the triumphant Washington players gathered around Vernon, Ike leaned precariously over the edge of his box and shook Vernon's hand. "Wonderful," he said. "Wonderful home...
...Triumphant Hour (Sun. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Easter drama, with Ann Blyth, Don Ameche, Pat O'Brien, Roddy McDowall...
...December 1949, Red China's triumphant Mao Tse-tung reached the IndoChina border, and started ferrying up to 3,000 tons of supplies a month to Comrade Ho. In January 1950, Moscow and Peking recognized Ho Chi Minh's "Democratic Republic." In February 1950, the U.S. recognized Bao Dai's state, and 37 of its allies followed suit. In June 1950, the U.S. sent its first shipment of arms. When the Communists struck in Korea. President Truman sent military advisers to Saigon. The world issue was joined...
Poverty & Slime. Jack Webb's present fame and financial independence are in-triumphant contrast to a boyhood which he likes to say was spent in "poverty and slime." His mother, Idaho-born Mrs. Maggie Smith Webb, was divorced shortly after he was born. She took the baby and her mother to California-first to San Francisco, and then, as her money dwindled, to a shabby apartment in Los Angeles. They had a bitter struggle. Jack nearly died of pneumonia when he was four. Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry...
Britons, proud of their Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, were never more sure of their pride than last week. Back home to London's Covent Garden came the company after a triumphant 19-week, 24-city tour of the U.S. and Canada, during which Sadler's Wells netted more than $600.000 beyond expenses. Dollar triumph aside. London was simply glad to have Sadler's Wells back. Usually reserved Covent Gardeners gave them tier upon tier of applause at each solo entrance (in a full-length Sleeping Beauty, all but brought down the venerable house when Prima...