Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone declared that the conference "reaffirmed mutual understanding and trust between us." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher uttered a hearty "mission accomplished." Even that perennial summit spoilsport, French President Francois Mitterrand, exulted that the meeting was "the most relaxed" he had experienced. Said the most triumphant of the summiteers, Ronald Reagan: "It's no exaggeration to describe the Tokyo summit as the most successful of the six that I have attended...
Nonetheless, the daylong protest marked a triumphant milestone in the history of the country's organized black labor movement. Black unions have been legal in South Africa only since 1979. Marshaling the organizational skills needed to achieve a nationwide strike was their greatest challenge yet. Aware that failure would weaken the unions' image as a potent force in the debate over the future role of blacks in the country, the leaders took pains to assure a strong turnout...
...filthy zoo where the animals have two legs and the media is the kids outside, squealing and giggling at the vicious capering of the beasts: "Woman explodes in subway station, film at eleven." The people are numb and helpless, the police impotent, the scum of the earth triumphant. The city desperately needs a hero, a savior--but the Batman vanished years...
Ronald Reagan, who knows a thing or two about landslides, telephoned from the White House to confess to the triumphant candidate that he was "envious of your margin of victory." By a lopsided 2,166 votes to 799, Actor Clint - Eastwood, 55, had seized city hall in Carmelby-the-Sea (pop. 4,800) with about as much authority as his famous movie detective Dirty Harry uses in seizing bad guys. Incumbent Charlotte Townsend offered her concession about an hour after the polls had closed...
That statement proved prescient. After the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, Americans read in a TIME cover story about MacArthur's triumphant 1944 return and the battle of Leyte Gulf. The Philippines finally gained full independence in July 1946. As a cover story on the occasion observed, President Manuel Roxas took over a war-shattered country with "no national economy, no export trade. Next to Warsaw, Manila is the world's most devastated city." Two decades later, in a laudatory account of President Marcos' efforts to beef up the Philippine economy, stave off the Communist...