Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could still be preserved-was the problem of the generals and of their battered, much-enduring regulars. And the only way the statesmen could save them would be through a plea for an armistice, or acceptance of a deal with the Communists. By any such deal, Communism would emerge triumphant...
Modern history has no more dramatic scene than Wu's speech at Lake Success. The world heard only by dim and dignified hearsay of Hitler raging at statesmen who came to Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...
...Hunter. To Wu's climactic moment at Lake Success, to the triumphant onrush of the Chinese Red army in Korea, the master in Peking had long dedicated himself. In a quarter-century of conspiracy and armed aggression against his own people, Mao Tse-tung has never lost his vision of the Chinese Communist movement as a prelude and vital part of the greater international Communist drive for world rule...
...room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...Buzz Saw. Whether Chinese or Korean, the enemy had succeeded in breaking up a triumphant U.N. offensive, by midweek was harrying U.N. defenses. In the northwest powerful Red units had driven southwest from the Manchurian border to Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang. Four overextended R.O.K. divisions -the ist, 6th, 7th and 8th-crumpled or were chopped up piecemeal in the Red attack. The enemy seemed to be trying to break the U.N. line below Unsan, then drive west along the Chongchon River to the coast...