Word: triumphant
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...Missouri reception, Truman introduced some thing new in presidential handshaking. He wished, he said, that everyone could go home and say he's shaken the President's hand. So, he instructed, everyone "hold your hands up like this" -clasping his hands like a triumphant boxer. The folks liked it fine...
...Democrats it was a triumphant week. Once again they were in charge of the congressional household which they had dominated for 14 years, from 1933 to 1947. There was more than office furniture to be moved around. The Republicans, in their two brief years of power, had also disarranged a lot of Democratic political furniture (e.g., labor laws and tax bills), and the Democrats were determined to put-them back in place...
Last week the school board's Committee on Hand Washing and Drying Facilities, formed to look into such matters, made a triumphant report of progress: the city had set aside $100,000 to provide soap and paper towels for 143,000 kindergarten and first-grade pupils. Could the 740,000 other unwashed New York City youngsters, from second grade to senior high, look to a cleaner, brighter future too? Said the committee's secretary guardedly: "We have hopes...
...joked and chatted with some 150 friends who turned out to cheer at the station. Then the "Truman Victory Special" chuffed away through the President's native Missouri on its last triumphant ride. Small towns flashed by in a blur of smiling faces and waving handkerchiefs; farmers saluted from the fields...
...hero, Ralph ("Dash") Inman, 24, and a captain from the age of 19, is grey and tense when the book opens because he has lost a ship. The Running of the Tide is the story of his triumphant vindication in command of another ship (the fastest in the world) on a three-year voyage to Batavia and Japan, salting away more than $100,000 a year...