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Word: triumphed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to a triumph for the team he led, The Game was a triumph for the offensive line, where Brown and his hefty mates ground the much-vaulted Yale defense into the turf. The running game, especially on the 76-yd. touchdown march that opened the contest, proved to be Harvard's not-so-secret weapon...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Proud Day for Captain Mike Brown | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...order than wearily convinced that a change of command at city hall would not make much difference. But as the results in Houston, Miami, San Francisco, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minneapolis demonstrated, no one can take the city voter for granted: the bloc appeals and political styles that swept to triumph in the last election may guarantee defeat in the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Strong Currents of Change | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...figure these days--football quarterback on a hot streak--making the long climb to his Kirkland lair. But somehow a name like that seems to demand a suit of armour and a damsel in distress. Yet Judson Burke St. John will settle for a plastic football helmet and a triumph with his mates over the dragons of New Haven...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Marquis of the Multiflex | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...about what to do, we are walking through the legs of the giants and doing the job." The California-based World Vision International, a conservative Protestant organization noted for its missionary efforts, has also been well received by Cambodian officials, largely because of contacts made there before the 1975 triumph of the Khmer Rouge. So far WVI has flown in about 15 tons of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Racing to Save the Hungry | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...PIECE of evidence they use is the CCC's slate. Although there were three pro-rent control liberals on the original CCC slate, (all three--Francis Duehay, Alvin Thompson and David Wylie have since withdrawn), there is no question that if the CCC slate does triumph rent control will be in trouble. The four incumbents for which the CCC will campaign all voted against rent controls and attempts to control condominium conversion, and none of the challengers picked by the group was willing or able to gain the support of the Rent Control Task Force. City council meetings might...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Style of Things to Come | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

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