Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphant Churchillian cock-a-doodling reflected a soberer opinion on the part of many Tory mentors that Churchill's stock did in fact stand far higher in the country than it had a year ago, when many Britons felt he might take unnecessary foreign risks. The assembled Tories found that he could still roar defiance at his enemies. "Let us go forward," he told the conference, brandishing a party symbol aloft, "with our sturdy, our unconquerable lions." Hen-like, the Tories thought they could still deliver the goods...
...minutes later, 14,000 miles away, alerted by secret code, a beaming, triumphant Winston Churchill went charging down the corridors of Balmoral Castle, where he was a guest, to tell his vacationing Queen the great news. In London the Admiralty issued a scant, proud statement: "A British atomic weapon has been successfully exploded in the Monte Bello Islands...
Revolution. The Seventh Congress (Petrograd, 1918), held five months after the Revolution, was the first open-air assembly of the triumphant party. It put "Communist" into the party's title (in full: "Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks"). This meeting, and the next three, set up these revolutionary milestones: 1) the Red army; 2) the "New Economic Policy," a temporary retreat from state ownership of industry and trade, permitting some private enterprise; 3) the Comintern, Communism's international...
Democrats were enjoying a triumphant laugh over the Nixon case until it reminded Kent Chandler of another story about a fund. When he told it, the Democrats had their own troubles...
...intercessors with God, historical distances have dimmed most saintly portraits even for the modern Christian, to say nothing of the skeptic who lives next door. To show the "timeliness" of the saints in 1952, Clare Luce has edited Saints for Now (Sheed & Ward; $3.50), 20 sketches of triumphant Christians of the past...