Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem strange that ideas discarded long ago can resurface today as "a new view"--and get accepted as such by liberal American scholars, the media and the larger population they influence and instruct. But on the question of how to define, prevent and reduce crime, the past reigns triumphant, while liberals look on in silence...
...poised for an even deeper and broader penetration into the common consciousness. For The Right Stuff, which many people thought could never be turned into a movie, is about to splash down in the nation's theaters. And despite a glitch here, a malfunction there, a triumphant landing it is likely...
...morning of April 17, 1975, that wish was fulfilled as the triumphant Khmer Rouge army marched into Phnom Penh. Lien's family joined townspeople in cheering and waving white cloths to welcome them. Lien's brother, Ty, who was 11 at the time, felt profound relief that be would not have to become a soldier and fight when he grew up. The euphoric citizens believed that the country could now look forward to peace and economic justice...
...generation that is passing-as if America were, today, governed by a six-man committee consisting of Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower and a few outstanding divisional World War II commanders. They have lived long enough to be honored for large victories and to have suffered from their own triumphant revolution. Aging revolutionaries who have recaptured power, they seem to want, most of them, to give China back to the ideals of the original revolution. They are struggling to avoid such a transfer of power as Mao, in his senile dementia, tried to mastermind from the palace court. They meet, usually...
This night Qiao Guanhua would not let himself be cornered on his stewardship of Chinese foreign policy under Mao; nor on his arrest after Mao's death; nor on the Cultural Revolution. I pressed him on what had gone wrong in China since our youth and his triumphant career; he dodged. When I finally pressed, deeply and hard, on the transition, he elegantly replied, "You must remember what Hegel said, that a man reaches an understanding of the history of his own time step by step ? only step by step...