Word: triumphant
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...doctor who had patients waiting, and her granddaughter, due for class at nursing school, begged off. So Margaret Sanger, who had made a lifelong crusade of birth control after seeing her mother die at age 50, worn out by 18 pregnancies and 11 children, celebrated her victory alone--but triumphant. --By Cathy Booth Thomas
According to Orcutt, American artists before Bellows overwhelmingly portrayed soldiers as heroic and battle scenes as triumphant...
...Franklin was the intellectual equal of Watson and Crick, but she lacked the advantage of a sympathetic collaborator, and she simply wasn't the prizewinning type. She was a bloodhound, cautious and implacable, whereas Crick and Watson were greyhounds who lived for the sprint. When they made their triumphant announcement, Franklin was gracious in defeat, accepting her peripheral role with an equanimity that surprised her colleagues. When she encountered Watson and Crick later in life, they met as friends. She probably never knew what a central part her X rays had played in their discovery...
...Nature as a result of the toss of a coin. Anyway, he said, ?I think I should have been first.? Nonetheless, skeptical colleagues in Cambridge for some months thereafter kept calling the double helix the WC structure (after the Brit jargon for toilet), because, said Watson with a triumphant grin, they were sure that?s where it would wind up. Predictions from the Future of Life conference for the year 2010: By then we?ll have sequenced the complete tree of life, possibly even breeds long extinct, including the common ancestor of humans and chimps. My ambition would...
Saddam has infused Orwellian lies and indoctrination, co-opted Hitler’s racial vision into triumphant Pan-Arabism, and reified a leader-worship analogous to Stalin or Mao. Fortunately, Hussein’s domestic success has been shackled by resistance to an Iraqi national identity founded in the thriving tribalism of Iraq’s many Shiites and Kurds. Moreover, his continued defiance of United Nations resolutions has brought down heavy economic sanctions, which have drained Iraq of potential wealth, subsequently weakening his own economic power...