Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried to keep their memory alive by wearing the team cap almost every day, but words like "Fehr," and "Harrington" (and even "thesis") made me forget. But Wednesday, all I thought of was the Red Sox as I watched them pummel the evil Twins and start their triumphant march to the World Series...
...contest got even tighter over the final two periods. Neither team could muster more than a one-goal lead, and it appeared that the team that scored last would emerge triumphant. The Crimson took a 10-9 lead with just 1:48 remaining, but could not hold it, and regulation ended...
...which Kennedy, for one, believed was the most important force in American journalism until TV became a national medium. TIME in its dominance was a magazine with an attitude, summed up in Luce's phrase "the American century"-an era he trusted would be as Christian and Republican and triumphant as he was. White put it this way in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of History: "Freedom of the press, [Luce] held, ran two ways: His reporters were free to report what they wished; but he was free to reject what they report-ed, or have it rewritten...
...laughter of the triumphant seemed to overpower the tears of the defeated in Harvard Yard yesterday, as first-years shared the results of their housing lottery...
...House Republicans going to celebrate the triumphant end of their first "100 days" (actual count: 91 days) in power? Still flushed from Wednesday's tax-cut win , House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other GOP luminaries gathered in a Washington hotel ballroom this evening for a pull-out-the-stops jubilee entitled "Promises Made, Promises Kept." First on the bill,TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighreports: an R&B band called (believe it or not) the Red Hot Swinging Johnsons...