Word: triumphant
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...Moscow simply to purchase basic foodstuffs, and the old Soviet-era joke was retold regularly: "Do you have meat here?" a customer asks. "No," says the shopkeeper. "Here we don't have fish; it's at the other store that they don't have meat." Yeltsin was nevertheless the triumphant victor over revanchism, and in Yaroslavl that day he was hailed joyously...
...lacrosse team, making the tournament was an especially triumphant moment...
...happen to be a prominent Republican these days, you have to wonder where your revolution went. The party that entered Washington in glory last year is looking anything but triumphant now. With its members divided among themselves, cranky about their presumptive presidential nominee and nervously entertaining the thought that their House majority might not survive November, Republicans are going through what even House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls a "funk...
Selling was the last thing on the mind of many of the triumphant bidders. Still, how long can even the euphoria of possession last? Louise Grunwald, a Manhattan friend of Jackie's, questions the motives of the eager buyers: "Some of it's got to be greed. Or is it to show your grandchild in 20 years, 'Look what I bought!'? But in 20 years that grandchild is not going to know who Jackie Kennedy...
...necessary as it is to never let the memory of those that died fade, so is it important for the Jewish people to shlepp naches (derive pride) in the miracle of Israeli independence. The beauty and triumphant existence of the state of Israel is testimony to the fact that Jews are not a humiliated people, that in spite of the attempts to defile and denigrate them, they are alive and well and that they are doing more than surviving (much less can be said for the Nazis and their sympathizers)--Jews all over the world from every strain of religious...