Word: triumphant
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...cloth -cotton and wool and the synthetic materials of running shoes, warmed by young flesh. Between classes there is a thunder of movement; the noise is stretched thin over a violence beneath, barely restrained. Sometimes in the lull at the end of the school day, when the triumphant, jeering racket of departure has subsided and only the students doing extracurricular activities remain in the great building, Joryleen Grant comes up to Ahmad at his locker. He does track in the spring; she sings in the girls' glee club. As students go at Central High, they are "good." His religion keeps...
...Sprints title that had eluded them for three years.There was a pair of second-place finishes in 2003 and 2004 to accompany mounting expectations that this Princeton class might be one of the best ever. On Sunday, it was: the Tigers erased two years of frustration with a triumphant 2.5 second win over the Crimson, crossing in 5:44.03 to Harvard’s second-place time of 5:46.2. “It felt really good and it felt smooth,” Boston said. “But it was definitely missing something. We can?...
...Carter polled his top advisers. Most recommended that he do it. But when he also asked what they would do if the Iranians seized the embassy in retaliation, none answered. And when the thing actually happened, no one on any side was sure of exactly what to do. The triumphant but clueless students would hang on to the 52 frightened, angry Americans for 444 days, all the while making hapless attempts to prove that the embassy had been a cockpit of intrigue and espionage. Although for the most part the hostages were not subjected to torture, their detention and humiliation...
...knew it as going to be a hard race,” sophomore stroke George Kitovitz said. “But I guess we came out on top.”The second varsity did indeed finish first, and Harvard did so once again in a triumphant, dominant fashion. But first, Harvard suffered a slight blow that no training or preparation could have prevented. The race starter called for the start before Harvard had settled in at the line, as the windy conditions made it impossible for both boats to remain aligned at the start for more than...
...said. “We should have done something like that, but Navy was the one that moved on us.”The varsity win marked Navy’s third in four years, but it was the Midshipmen’s second varsity victory that proved most triumphant in this year’s Haines Cup competition.The Crimson second varsity hadn’t lost a dual race since April 2003. And on Saturday, at least for the first 1,000 meters, it looked that the streak would survive its trip to Annapolis. Harvard used a fast start...