Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joplin's career was not built through a publicity machine-Friedman did not even have publicity shots of her after her first triumphant New York appearance. Joplin created her own extravagant legend onstage. Unlike singers whose music swells in a slowly rising tide over 15 or 20 minutes, she opened the floodgates in her first two songs...
...that leadership could ever be restored. It seemed incredible that only a little over a year had passed since Nixon and Agnew had stood at Miami, waving acknowledgment of their renomination, and only a little over six months since they were sworn in for a second term after a triumphant election...
...book was to have ended on a triumphant note, a "view from Olympus," on March 17, 1973, as Nixon described his use of a President's power in an exclusive interview with the author. White records a self-confident Nixon, trained by four years in office to ignore public tumult and exclude all but highest-priority matters from his attention; such tough-minded devotion to long views is, White decides, the stuff of history. At that time, he writes, "my judgment . . . would have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank...
...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...