Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...triumphant Columbia returns with two faulty suits and a flat...
...priority in the U.S. Immediately after World War II, with the help of the Ford Foundation, Columbia established its Russian Institute and Harvard set up the Russian Research Center to promote study in Soviet history, politics, economics and literature. In 1958, the year after the Soviets' triumphant launch of Sputnik, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which provided Government funds for Soviet-studies programs at such universities as Washington, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, California (Berkeley), Indiana and Stanford. By 1970, however, Government and foundation funds began drying up. Between 1967 and 1976, federal contracts for all foreign affairs research...
Those and other battles will be joined soon enough. For the present, Spain was calm and triumphant. For the third time since Franco's death, the country had freely elected a government, this time with a record voter turnout of 79.5%. With each trip to the polls, the people of Spain seemed to gain in political maturity and to reinforce the underpinnings of their young democracy...
...brokers who work the floor of the Big Board, the past two weeks have been as exhausting and exhilarating as a triumphant run in a marathon race. Never have they logged so many miles rushing between the buzzing telephones along the walls of the exchange and the bustling trading posts in the middle. Never have the stock prices, which are flashed in green on the electronic tapes overhead, surged, dipped and surged again with such stupefying speed. Never have so many big deals been executed one after another. "It feels like you can never get done," says Harry Buonocore...
...busy fighting to date girls. In S.E. Hinton's bestselling The Outsiders, Ponyboy and his hoods battle Socs (Socials), who cruise their mean streets in Mustangs and madras shirts looking for loners. The results: manslaughter, murder, despair. But out of the rubble of class structure, sensitivity rises triumphant. Says Ponyboy: "What kind of a world is it where all I have to be proud of is a reputation for being a hood, and greasy hair? I don't want to be a hood, but even if I don't steal things and mug people and get boozed...