Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Break. The old man fights the great fish for two days and nights, sustained by his courage, his respect for his foe, a few swallows of water, a few mouthfuls of raw fish. Triumphant at last, but nearly finished himself, he lashes the enormous dead fish to the side-it is two feet longer than the skiff-and heads for home. Then come the hijacking sharks. At first the old man kills them as they come in to attack his catch; then, his harpoon lost in one, his knife broken off in another, he gives in to the inevitable. What...
...Rome has celebrated Ferragosto for some 2,000 years. Most historians trace its origin to the three-day jeriae augustales (holidays of Augustus) proclaimed in 29 B.C. in honor of the triumphant return of Caesar Augustus from his campaign against Antony and Cleopatra. Some say it has even earlier beginnings. Six centuries later it became a universal Roman Catholic holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven...
...given?" asked Douglas, theatrically cupping his ears and leaning over the rostrum, as if to listen for an answer. "It was Dwight D. Eisenhower!" And who did the delegates think made the U.S. proposal before the U.N. to withdraw the troops from Korea? Again the ear business, again the triumphant answer: "John Foster Dulles...
Then the delegates climbed into their buses and drove to the convention hall. The roll call began. One by one, the voices spoke for the states of the Union: flat Midwestern twangs and Southern singsongs, quiet voices and hoarsely tense voices, defiant voices and triumphant voices, and voices that tried to cram a message into the simple business of voting. ("I vote for Eisenhower, the winner." "I proudly vote for Bob Taft." "Louisiana casts 13 hard-earned votes for Eisenhower...
...smashing" victory, said a triumphant Robert Taft in Washington next day. Illinois' Congressman Les Arends joyfully clapped back on Taft's head an old Taft campaign hat which Arends had bought at a G.O.P. fund-raising auction the week before. Taft added up the Illinois results for reporters with the enthusiasm of an electric calculator ticking off a problem in square root. "It is no easy task to defeat a popular wartime general in successive elections [i.e., Nebraska and Illinois]. In the fourth largest state of the Union I have carried the state by a smashing margin...