Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dropped behind Taliban lines with little more than weapons, cash and a mission to start a Pashtun insurgency. In one fire fight, Amerine and eight of his soldiers, with the intermittent help of Afghan irregulars, stopped an advance of 1,000 Taliban soldiers. Just as they were descending triumphant on Kandahar, an errant U.S. bomb hit, killing two of his men and leaving Amerine with shrapnel in his leg, a busted eardrum and dark, hard memories of a war that had him putting his best sergeant in a body...
...thought we had a big, 6’7 left hander to go out there and battle the Ivy League,” Walsh said over the PA system. “Well, he had a different battle, a battle with cancer. Making a triumphant return to O’Donnell Field for the first time after beating cancer is Wes Cosgriff...
...every moment of triumph, he seemed to be the topic of conversation, so it was singularly appropriate that on a day like yesterday—the most triumphant day of the season—he was there, watching every lead-changing home run from the third base dugout...
Unfortunately, this legislative absurdity is a problem for more than just Florida. A triumphant N.R.A. has vowed to get "stand your ground" laws passed in every state. "We will start with red and move to blue," LaPierre has declared, adding ominously, "Politicians are putting their career in jeopardy if they oppose this type of bill...
...Last year, there were about 16 large-scale parties that were significantly hazardous enough to be closed,” Chief of University of Pennsylvania Police Tom Rambo told the paper, triumphant. “This year, there were only eight...