Word: triumphant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually, Mrs. Roosevelt's career has been a triumphant assertion of the code of a half-forgotten 400-of that fortlike social world which existed in New York when sleek carriage horses still clopped along Fifth Avenue, when her "Uncle Ted" was President, and when World War I had yet to create the disconcerting erosions of the speakeasy age. When she abandoned that world she did not abandon its ways. Its aristocratic accents, its manners, its almost arrogant denial of ostentation, its odd blindnesses-even, it seemed, a lady's instinctive feeling that feminine candor would...
...hated the dreary toil of filling out his complicated, sometimes incomprehensible income-tax form, and was inclined to have wild, triumphant daydreams about finding on the street a big bundle of unmarked small bills which he could bury without the knowledge of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As he entered item 6, added items 2 and 3, and fumbled distractedly with old dentist's and gasoline bills, he sometimes stopped to stare for long intervals at the ceiling-as if he expected to see a little loudspeaker push through the plaster and hear President Truman's voice saying...
...process of gathering the American income tax is so efficiently organized, so highly buttressed by every device of triumphant capitalism that it costs only 50? for every $100 disgorged. And the American taxpayer has reached such a high standard of living that he sometimes pays more in taxes than it costs him to feed himself and his family...
...very sheen of the achievement that exposed the shabbiness of Western diplomacy across the Pacific. In Korea, the major allies of triumphant Lisbon listlessly pursued a stalemate. In Indo-China, French forces fell back from the hard-won gains made by the late General de Lattre de Tassigny. On Washington's high levels there was talk that sounded like defeatism for the Pacific, e.g., that U.S. air power lies virtually at the mercy of a Chinese Communist buildup which now numbers 1,700 planes (including 900 jets...
...Republicans, naturally, hoped so. During the campaign, G.O.P. Candidate Robert Tripp Ross doggedly assailed the "crime, corruption and Communism" of the Truman Administration. Democrat Hugh Quinn sidestepped the Truman issue, insisted that he was a good city councilman and would make a good Representative. The G.O.P. victory brought a triumphant shout from Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "It reflects the determination of voters everywhere to replace Trumanism with sound, honest government." Loser Quinn agreed. "Truman licked me," he griped. "I lost out against the scandals in the national Administration. The election should not have been decided on national issues...