Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumbled behind a low-flying cloud. At 48 miles' altitude, the massive first-stage booster shut off and separated. The hydrogen-burning second stage took over, and it burned perfectly for eight minutes. When it was 1,300 miles downrange and 375 miles north of Antigua Island, the triumphant announcement came: Saturn had reached orbiting speed. The new satellite weighs 38,000 Ibs., and 20,000 Ibs. of it is payload. The weightiest Russian satellites, Sputniks 7 and 8, 1961, weighed only 14,292 Ibs. Only six years ago, the U.S. tried and failed...
Fado's dark charms are, indeed, perceivable beyond Portugal. Amália has sung in New York and Hollywood, made a dozen successful visits to Bra zil and just finished a triumphant engagement in Mexico City. But back home, her spell is so strong that she easily persuades Portugal's leading intellectuals and composers to write songs for her, thus taking the national art form from the hands of the dejected lovers and sentimental ladies who anonymously contribute most fado lyrics...
...audience, and speaking with alarming frankness of his own sexual license, Goodman offered himself to his sympathizers on an intensely personal level. Before the evening was over even his fatuous remarks drew enthusiastic applause; the issues at hand were rapidly obfuscated as the Liberal Union forum evolved into a triumphant flirtation between Goodman and his audience...
...addition to the championship, Yale emerged triumphant in four other contests. Saybrook College overcame an 8-0 deficit to trip Adams House, 14 to 8. Winthrop House was buried by Silliman College, 21 to 6. Ezra Stiles College beat Dunster, 14 to 0: Dudley was bombed by Trumbull College...
...without inflation, and the method, acceleration from positions previously prepared." Groaned one Conservative: "God, it's like a Tory election poster!" Twice Sir Alec even made the tactical gaffe of referring to Wilson as "possible later Prime Minister." The Tory benches remained deathly silent while Labor's triumphant roar surged around the slight, pale Prime Minister...