Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenton and his progressives had thoughtfully scheduled Paris as the climax of a triumphant month's tour of the Continent. Earlier, from Scandinavia to Switzerland, they had given 27 concerts in 27 days. In Copenhagen some 10,000 fans stomped their approval so hard that Kenton & Co. began to fear for the floor. Amsterdam fans called them mieters (current Dutch slang for terrific). In Miinster admirers rioted for autographs...
...great crowd on the beach watched him make his flights: two passes over the course in each direction to average out the wind. He flew just off the shore at 50 feet above the water, and when he finished he did a triumphant barrel roll to entertain the beach sitters. The Royal Aero Club announced that he had broken the record, but Airman Duke was not satisfied. After an early supper of cold roast beef, he made four more runs. His average speed of 727.6 m.p.h. exceeded the previous record (made by U.S.A.F. Lieut. Colonel William Barns-TIME. July...
...night Lieut. Gillan and several hundred of his shipmates went swirling down Sunda Strait toward the Indian Ocean through waters slick with oil and glaring in the searchlights of the triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...
...Yogi, she strode on to the stage in flowing saffron robes with a long tambura (Indian lute) held at her back and her white hair wildly flying. She had first danced it in Vienna in 1908; in this appearance, she was frankly an old woman, but a triumphant old woman...
Last week Assisi celebrated the 700th anniversary of St. Clare's death. Pilgrims and dignitaries from all over the world poured into the little Umbrian town for two days of special services and speeches. In the triumphant procession that climaxed the celebration, behind long lines of tonsured friars and bundled nuns, five relics of the saint were borne; a ball of yarn she had spun, a chip of her bones, a skein of hair cut off by St. Francis, her brown mantle, and the rough tunic she wore...