Word: triumphantly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though Jake A. Porter ’05 has been claiming that the cuts and bruises on his face were the result of a triumphant barroom brawl with a smart-ass Yankees fan, sources say that the injuries were in fact caused by a misstep during an IM soccer match. To Porter’s credit, though, it was probably his intense passion for the Red Sox, and not his complete lack of coordination, that caused him to trip over his own feet and slam face-first into the ground...
...triumphant mission of the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 [in 1965] brought some reality to musings about Mars. The craft flew past the planet at a distance of only 9,800 kilometers, transmitting 22 television pictures of a bleak, moonlike landscape pockmarked by craters and showing no signs of life. Even so, hope persisted. To demonstrate that a Mariner flyby at a distance of thousands of miles might completely overlook a thriving civilization, a young and still unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of Earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 480 kilometers...
...early September, Josef Ackermann delivered a triumphant message to an audience of investors and financial analysts in London: his aggressive plan to reshape Deutsche Bank was working. In chart after chart, he showed how in the 16 months since he'd taken over the €23 billion bank he had begun to dump unprofitable businesses and slash costs. His last slide was the usual boiler-plate disclaimer that said the presentation "involves inherent risks and uncertainties." It didn't mention the biggest risk of all: that Ackermann himself soon would end up in court, charged with a serious breach...
...Brian is discovering melodic things that have more feeling than just a bombardment of noise. But there is an overwhelming triumphant feeling. I feel like we are mainly joyful. Sometimes the joy gets like ‘What the hell is going on?’ But it’s just a happiness in what we are doing, a joy of playing,” Chippendale said...
...It’s a triumphant day for Harvard contestants when both Redd and Gray make it into the top 15, and then the top ten. This means that both of them get to compete in swimsuit, the new “casual wear” competition and evening wear. Redd, clad in red-orange silk, is escorted by Sammy; Gray, in sparkly red, is on her father?...