Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...progress has not been speedy, it has been selective and generally sound. If it has opened few new frontiers, it has at least held fast to old and solid principles. In the best and truest sense of the word, Yale has stood from its earliest beginnings for conservatism triumphant...
Homecoming at La Scala From a box near the stage, one admirer threw a red rose. From the rest of the house welled warm, welcoming applause. After eleven triumphant years in the New World, Licia Albanese, 37, one of the Metropolitan Opera's top sopranos, had returned to Milan's La Scala...
Good music, well-rehearsed musicians, and Mr. William Perry combined to make the Adams House Musical Society's closing concert a triumphant one. Presenting English and French works of the Eighteenth Century, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and instrumentalists from the greater Boston area accomplished the difficult feat of pleasing an audience with music most of them had never heard before...
...organ I'Unità echoed: "The criminal MacArthur fired because of the protest of the whole civilized world." The satellite Budapest press chanted a litany of satisfaction over the dismissal of a "bloody-handed hangman, murderous, carnivorous fascist." Only Moscow struck the suspicious as well as triumphant note. "Having removed the general who failed," warned the Literary Gazette for the ears of the Communist faithful, "Wall Street does not intend to renounce his risky policy...
...world's scientists, Argentina's new method of producing atomic energy was still "the baloney bomb." More than two weeks after Perón's triumphant announcement, no proof of real accomplishment had yet appeared. The few vague details made public were unconvincing, and Dr. Ronald Richter, just decorated by Perón for his "discovery," was unconvincing...