Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton seemed to be musing about his presidency as much as his country. For months he had chafed at the strategy he adopted last December, in which he decided to cede the stage to the triumphant Republicans in the hope they would suffer the consequences of their lofty promises. Allies in Congress and his aides told him the strategy was working, but Clinton began to complain that they were forfeiting the endgame in the budget process and doing little more than asserting their own irrelevance. After keeping them largely in the dark about his ideas, and consulting covertly with Morris...
...languishes for 20 years in a cruel dictator's prison. A wife passes that time in exile, faithfully awaiting his return. We know what's supposed to happen when he's released: a period of adjustment (serio or comic, according to taste) and then a triumphant assertion of true love's unconquerable power...
...adjacent railway line, and within two more days had subdued the last Serb pockets of resistance throughout the sector. The Croats reported a total of 42 dead among their forces and estimated Serb losses at between 350 and 450 men. In a televised address to the nation, a triumphant Croatian President Franjo Tudjman boasted of a "swift and great" victory carried out "in a skilled and excellent...
...Celtics' Sunday night comeback against the Orlando Magic has added extra life to an already entertaining post-season. The triumphant second game turnarounds of the Celtics, Cavs and Lakers have made basketball all the more unpredictable and captivating...
...first round should be a cakewalk for the other three home teams in the East--Orlando, Indiana and New York. Likewise, San Antonio, Phoenix, Utah and Seattle will emerge triumphant out West, although Seattle will have a tough time dispatching of the resurgent Lakers...