Word: triumphant
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...triumphant republicans promise to make tax reform a high priority in the next few months. Democrats will have counterproposals. Here are some of the words you'll be hearing and how to interpret them...
...Ying-jeou likes to run. As mayor of Taipei for the past four years, he's become famous for a punishing 17-hour-a-day work schedule that includes a religiously observed half-hour jog. Over the weekend, he broke the tape on an utterly triumphant political race, winning a second four-year term in the mayor's office by a landslide. The question for Taiwan: will Ma complete his term?or will he choose to run for the island's presidency...
...property prices and sex scandals. They would do well to hark back to their hero. "The day may dawn," declared Churchill in his 1955 parliamentary farewell, "when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth, serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair." The colonies may be gone, but Churchill showed how the supple power of the English language - whose reach still grows - can forge an empire on which the sun need never...
...stripper, and the wolf into a lusty club-goer who springs into a “full-body erection.” Throughout the 1970s, the story became a regular feminist tool for calling attention to female victimization, and women repeatedly rewrote the story to cast Red as a triumphant heroine (stabbing the wolf with a sewing knife and wearing his fur), the wolf as a slavering date-rapist, or both. Anne Sexton’s poetic version from Transformations gets a full printing and illuminating treatment. The discussion of fairy-tale porn is amusing, if rather...
While the Angels’ fate next year will probably depend on their pitching, we hope on behalf of fans everywhere for a 2003 baseball season as full of reversals and triumphant underdogs as this one has been. In the words of singing movie cowboy Gene Autry, the late vice president of the American League and longtime owner of the Angels, “We never dream the same dream twice...