Word: triumphant
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Shyjan and Zimmerman both reached the semifinals. Shyjan lost to top-seeded Mark Booras of West Virginia, 6-3, 7-6, but Zimmerman completed his triumphant recovery with a 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 win, avenging Shyjan's loss...
...hands, this material could get pretty twee and reductive; give the kid a disease, and you have a TV movie of the week. And, in fact, the second half of Little Man Tate threatens to take sides, to turn Jane into an exploitative klutz, to provide a happy, even triumphant solution to the dilemma, full of hats and horns and two birthday cakes. But, really, that's just dessert to a film that offers much chewy food for thought. The comforting dream of communion at the end can't erase the picture's careful wit about good people in desperate...
Though modest about his work, the healer takes pleasure in recounting one triumphant moment of vindication. Last year he was approached by nuns from a Catholic mission hospital who asked him to help an extremely sick man whose chest was being eaten away by a subcutaneous amoebic infection that had not responded to drugs. Using a method learned from his father, N'donazi applied washed and crushed soldier termites to the open wounds. The patient, Thomas Service, made a remarkable recovery. In gratitude, he now appears at the clinic every Sunday bearing a gift for N'donazi. When a visitor...
Hank Aaron's autobiography, I Had a Hammer (HarperCollins; $21.95), written with Lonnie Wheeler, is as much a provocative primer on baseball's race relations in the 1950s and '60s as it is a superstar's account of his triumphant march to breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home-run record. Aaron, who spent much of his career overshadowed by mediagenic players -- both white and black -- like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, can claim with some justice that he was belittled by stereotypes. "Because I was black, and because I never moved faster than I had to, and because...
Unremitting enmity continued until President Richard Nixon's triumphant visit to Beijing in 1972 set up another false impression -- that China under Mao and Deng Xiaoping was a nation on the road to capitalism and possibly even democracy. It is, of course, no such thing. China remains a police state controlled by a Communist Party dictatorship and dedicated to socialist central planning with a few market mechanisms...