Word: triumphant
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...haunt him; Argentina's plague of kidnapings rose, as did the amount of ransom demanded. An even worse blow came last month when a bloody shoot-out between left-and right-wing Peronist factions left 34 dead and 342 wounded, ruining what was to have been a triumphant homecoming for Perón (TIME, July...
...sheer nonsense." But the radicals' demands are serious enough: the ouster of U.S. forces and a drastic reduction of West Germany's defense budget. Beyond these goals, the left seems to be aiming for an eventual reunification of the two Germanys in which socialism would be triumphant...
...years after World War II, few professional people were more widely acclaimed or publicly admired in the U.S. than scientists and engineers. Together they had not only perfected key weapons for the triumphant Allies, but also compounded the miracle of modern medicine, discovered among other wonders the mechanism of heredity, and not incidentally helped give America a material standard of living higher than any in history. More recently, they capped their achievements by landing men on the moon. Indeed, such was their success that many people became convinced that there were scientific or technological "fixes" for all the nation...
That emotional encounter marked the triumphant reunion of patriarch and protégé-although at times the roles seemed reversed. Cámpora had said that he was "going to see my boss." But Perón called himself only "a soldier of Cámpora" and added that "now it will be Mr. Cámpora who slices the salami." If so, it will be Mr. Perón who gets served the meal. The rendezvous in Rome was a confirmation of the bizarre victory by proxy that the 77-year-old Perón had engineered from...
...father, terrifying portrayed by Eddie Albert, a sort of Old Testament God who threatens to wreak an "ass kicking" on Lenny if he doesn't leave the schikse alone and return to his own kind. But Lenny is persistent, and he finally weds his bride, managing a triumphant grin at the Protestant minister...