Word: triumphant
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...Tsognas Arena, there’s probably a smile on his face all the time now. Thrilled and confused through the entire show, Julian muttered to us drunkenly, acting like our best friend and our older brother at the same time. At the end of the set, during the triumphant “Take It or Leave It,” he dove into the audience, and as the crowd pawed frantically at him and made their push towards the front, about a hundred people fell over and a nervous pandemonium ensued. The security guards scrambled to help the fallen...
From then on, he was the only photographer allowed into the Kennedy inner circle, where he captured the tough primary battles, the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, the triumphant national campaign and first months of the White House. Through his camera's quiet and unblinking eye, the nation became aware of Jack Kennedy's profile, his indestructible mat of hair, his smile and the winsome and soft beauty of Jackie...
...suspend Parliament and impose a state of emergency?all while her Prime Minister was overseas?represented, even her party members admit, a naked power grab rather than an attempt to protect "national security" as she claimed. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's return to Colombo three days later and his triumphant procession to the cheers of tens of thousands were, his supporters agree, premature victory celebrations. To the north, the decision by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to recall 180 of its guerrillas from "family leave" is, Wickremesinghe tells TIME, actually a cover for rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran...
When George Bush landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln last spring, Democrats fibrillated. They denounced the scenes of a triumphant Commander-in-Chief surrounded by cheering troops as crassly choreographed for 30-second campaign ads, and fumed that the whole stunt had been paid for by the taxpayers. Now,the same critics can't wait to cue the tape. As American casualties mount and bombs shake Baghdad, the image of Bush's flight suit strut under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" is so discordant, his opponents believe, it says more about the administration's arrogance and incompetence than...
...cries coming from the Red Sox faithful at 12:40 a.m. were among the only sounds on a somber campus. There were no parades through the Square, or triumphant toasts atop John Harvard...