Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feels different. Very different," senior Bob Horne said after the match that marks the first time in six years that the Crimson has emerged from the perennial contest triumphant...
...defiance. At 4 p.m. Sociology Student Krzysztof Pakulski began to read a complicated agreement that had been hammered out and haggled over during two weeks of often hot-tempered negotiations, and which now signaled the end of a spreading student strike. When the accord was signed an hour later, triumphant cheers erupted from the 800 students assembled in the university auditorium...
That fact alone largely explains why there are so few self-styled popular political forces in the Third World that are unabashedly pro-American. Happily, one such rarity emerged triumphant in last year's Jamaican elections, which brought Prime Minister Edward Seaga to power...
Exhausted but triumphant, the three men were the first to deplane from one of the Air Algerie Boeing 727s that bore the hostages from Tehran to Algiers. There they were greeted with grateful bear hugs by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria Ulric Haynes Jr., the Americans with whom they had worked so closely in the frantic last days of bargaining...
...captors to keep the Americans prisoner. Pravda said that the U.S. had invited retaliation by restoring the Shah to the throne in 1953 and then, when he was overthrown, refusing to return him to Iran. When the U.S. rescue raid failed last April, the Soviet press burst out in triumphant indignation: "An abortive provocation," "a violation of international...