Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...positive thinking. As a crowd of onlookers sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat, LaLanne, with his hands and feet bound, swam a mile through the city's harbor while towing 70 rowboats, each with at least one person inside. The feat took 2½ hours, but the triumphant human tug emerged from the water saying that he had fulfilled "the dream of a lifetime...
...parachute is coming down, coming down!" he repeated rapidly. "Coming down!" Beneath the plume of a red-and-white chute one morning last week, a capsule drifted earthward carrying three cosmonauts, Leonid Kizim, 43, Vladimir Solovyev, 38, and Oleg Atkov, 35, to the arid steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan. The triumphant trio, who had been aloft since last February aboard an orbiting Soviet space station, were the possessors of a new space endurance record: a 237-day spin through the heavens.* A more important trophy was the cache of information gathered from experiments run on board their trailer-size Salyut...
...fact, the triumphant Huskies were outplayed in almost every aspect of the game, with the final score the only notable exception...
...triumphant Keverian last Thursday trotted out the names of his supporters, calling the bluff of McGee, who said he still controls a majority of the legislators, McGee has not produced the names of his supporters and has not challenged Keverian's list...
There may be some fun in this campaign too-at last. Until Mondale's triumphant sentence, the most memorable remark this tedium produced was "Where's the beef?" Now, while tolerating the inevitable Mr. Mom jokes applied to Ferraro's husband, we should also have the more subtle pleasure of watching President Reagan tiptoe through the social land mines. Will Ferraro be a "gal," a "girl," a "lady"? There should be wonderful national bull sessions too: heated, sophomoric, serious. What is this "compassion factor" anyway? As if Elizabeth I were a dove. Sense and nonsense will gallop...