Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Diefenbaker rushed off to the House of Commons to announce that President Kennedy had agreed to make his first official visit out of the U.S. to Canada some time before June. The House burst into cheers, and as Cabinet members clustered around their triumphant boss even Opposition Leader Lester Pearson rose to offer his congratulations...
After last week's triumphant New York debut, Joan Sutherland concentrated on smoothing out all-but-invisible flaws in her performance. "The moment one stops finding things to criticize," she says of herself, "one might as well pack up." Soprano Sutherland has plenty of packing to do-for a tour of the U.S. and Europe that will reach a climax for U.S. operagoers next fall, when she sings Lucia...
...moaning "Mush, straight ahead, mush") both at the audience and into the occasionally accompanying grand piano. Miss Berberian has one of the few voices I have ever heard that is equal to such a task. Her superb control and truly magnificent versatility enabled her to present a most triumphant reading of this unusually demanding work...
Skiing had rarely seen anything like it: in three weeks Guy Périllat, 20, had won three international championships-at Switzerland's Wengen, Austria's Kitzbühel and France's Mégéve. Last week, as he returned from his triumphant tour to his native La Clusaz (pop. 1,200, including about 100 Périllats) in the French Alps, the whole town turned out to greet and acclaim the grinning, bull-necked man who is beyond dispute the king of the world's slopes...
...Labor, longtime Union Lawyer Arthur Goldberg flew to Manhattan to make his own effort toward ending the railroad-tugboat strike that had stranded some 100,000 commuters and stalled railroad travel as far west as Chicago. After 14 hours behind closed doors with union and management negotiators, Goldberg emerged triumphant-and next day the trains began to run again...