Word: triumphant
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Freshmen Bob Morrison and Rob Perkins both earned their first victories of their collegiate careers Saturday. Morrison finished first in the 100 freestyle, while Perkins won the 200 backstroke and swam the backstroke leg of the triumphant 400 medley relay team...
...democracy that resembles nothing quite so much as a homecoming football game. Music blares, drivers honk, and flags decorate the streets. The Feb. 2 elections were no different. After more than 1 million voters went to the polls, Oscar Arias Sanchez of the ruling National Liberation Party emerged triumphant with 52.3% of the vote, defeating the Social Christian Unity Party's Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier, who claimed 45.7% of the count...
...cheers drowned out the jeers. Thatcher finished up with a triumphant attack on the divided Labor Party. It was a bravura performance, and she easily won the subsequent vote of confidence, 379-219, a victory that the government hoped would finish the affair. Not everyone was convinced. A Harris poll taken afterward showed that only 29% of British voters believed she had told the whole truth...
...Trip to Bountiful has gone a little stale, too. Like the old woman's homecoming, which is fraught with disappointment as well as joy, this film reaches its fruition with less than triumphant results...
Senior middle-distance runner Cliff Sheehan made a triumphant return to the intercollegiate track circuit. Competing in his first meet of the season, Sheehan (who was on leave doing research last term) won the mile and 1000-meter races, and was voted the meet's most outstanding performer...