Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Triumphant Return. Thus last week the war that has lasted six years in Algeria raged on. The French, as they have all along, claimed they were winning. They say that there are only 7,600 F.L.N. regulars in Algeria today, compared with 16,000 two years ago. But they admit that some 18,000 rebels are in battle readiness across the Tunisian border, and another 8,000 encamped in Morocco...
Nevertheless, Verwoerd's regime has been strengthened by the referendum; his followers are triumphant; they want action. Which leads to the question: What happens after the republic is launched next year...
...Hussein's brother and uncle personally ordered the shooting. When Jordan's embarrassed funeral cortege reached the Syrian frontier to turn the body back, U.A.R. guards swept the Jordanian wreaths into the roadside dust. In Damascus and Cairo the U.A.R.'s propagandists and patriots staged a triumphant demonstration for the boy who, rather than embarrass his country, had chosen death...
...Halaby's Triumphant...
Lemmon's return to Boston for the pre-Broadway run of his play, "Face Of A Hero," has been a triumphant one. Between rehearsals and interviews, he is plagued by old friends who "know him when" and who want to shake his hand. "It's more frantic here than other places," he explains sheepishly. "After all, it's my home...