Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Triumph of the Will. Is Coco even Coco, or is she really another truly rugged individualist known as Katharine Hepburn? As an actress, Hepburn has spent a lifetime filtering characters through the steely sieve of herself. She does not submit to roles; she rules them, and everyone has grown terribly fond of her special brand of tyranny through personality. That personality is grounded in the New England mind, which has the same flinty character as the New England soil. Her performance is a triumph of the will over intrinsic limitations. If she cannot dance, she kicks; if she cannot sing...
...early 1900s, many Christians talked euphorically of the "Christian Century"?a label still worn by a liberal Protestant magazine. Others predicted that the era would see the demise of religion and the triumph of science; they were also proved wrong. Few prophets today see either triumph or tragedy. Whether the ministry survives will ultimately depend on what mankind decides a minister is?or should be. Though clergymen, theologians and social scientists offer widely different interpretations of some aspects of the future church, the consensus for the foreseeable future seems to be that old and new will exist side...
...highpoint of the match for Army was Julian Burns' four-game triumph over Fernando Gonzales. The Crimson's number three player won his first game 15-11, but dropped three extremely close contests to Bruns-15-16, 15-18, and 11-15. Burns emered the match undefeated in intercollegiate competition...
...This triumph appeared to give the Bruins momentum, but Crimson coach Bill Brooks did not panic. He put two backstrokers, one breaststroker, and one reluctant freestyler, Ackerman, into the freestyle relay, the final event. This combination fell behind early and failed to come back giving Brown...
Without Actually Cheating) to the last (Golfmanship), can easily be absorbed at one sitting. In any of them, it is impossible to miss Potter's point: that anyone can triumph over all the pompous types who hog the center of the stage -the long-winded bore, the authority, the physician, the superior competitor. How? By using stratagems of such seeming innocence and such Machiavellian obliqueness that the victim scarcely knows he has been pinked. Thus one day, playing golf with a friend, Potter asked "a bit of a favor" on the third hole. But he delayed revealing what...