Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most thrilling moments in a season of slogging defensive domination. Among the best: the Houston Oilers' Billy ("White Shoes") Johnson (5 ft. 9 in., 170 Ibs.) of the end-zone victory dance, scooting past Chicago Bear defenders, then performing the N.F.L.'s first dwarf dunk-a triumphant spike over the goal posts. The Baltimore Colts' Howard Stevens (5 ft. 5 in., 162 Ibs. and the smallest man in the N.F.L.), the Nureyev of the sidelines, dancing beyond the grasp of lumbering would-be tacklers. The Atlanta Falcons' Rolland Lawrence...
...often assumed that most Americans have entered a state known as the New Morality. It is a condition in which pleasure is the principle, living in sin is no sin, and more or less anything, between consenting adults, goes. Yet although some observers have proclaimed the revolution triumphant, new battles keep breaking out. Examples...
...Crimson's sports extra that day ran the headline, "Mighty blue juggernaut tears through Crimson defense for smashing victory--Eli machine reaches acme of strength--visitors stage triumphant snake dance...
...John Vorster is shrewd as well as stubborn. Having placated Afrikaners with a show of strength, he might after a suitably triumphant electoral victory release most of the detainees and reduce the threat to the nation's press. (Last week, in a little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...
When the smoke finally cleared yesterday at Webster Field, Kirkland House (that bastion of jockism) had emerged triumphant over Winthrop (the people's choice...