Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That slow plodding to the capital, which took two months, was a triumphant journey. At nearly every town and village, Bhave found arbors of palms and mango leaves erected for him to walk through. Underfed, ragged villagers crowded around to touch the holy man's feet, and to bathe them when he would stop for a rest. Municipal dignitaries garlanded him with flowers, which the little ascetic passed back to the crowd. At each departure, the elders walked with him a mile toward the next village. And at every stop, he held a prayer meeting and carried on with...
Before the entire diplomatic corps (21 ambassadors with their staffs), the President paid tribute to hemispheric unity as "triumphant testimony before all the world that peace and trust and fellowship can rule the conduct of nations," and pledged that cooperation, not intervention, would continue to be the ruling principle of U.S. Latin American policy...
...rush. For the next minute the two played a dart-and-dodge game, the calf trying to get around the horse and back to the herd. Then the calf gave up-Marion's Girl gravely facing him, head on. Nose to nose they stood, frustrated calf and triumphant horse, while the crowd shouted its appreciation. Said one fervent rancher: "A cow pony with a master's degree...
...first triumphant march among he dispossessed masses of the Roman Empire, Christianity's appeal was not that of a heavenly salvation after death, but of the coming of a heavenly ordained society of brotherly sharing right here upon our common earth-and of the resurrection of the faithful dead to share in it. That hope met the same ardent response then as the not wholly dissimilar Communist hope meets among the dispossessed today. But the basic Christian methods of overcoming evil with active goodness was and is in diametrical opposition to the Communist methods . . The one method helps create...
...Narriman looked pale, tired-and tired of it all. Two weeks ago mother-in-law Mme. Assila Sadek flew in from Cairo and flew at the ex-King. Result: Narriman, impassive behind dark glasses, drove to Rome's Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return to Cairo, where...