Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polish people, they seemed remarkably subdued at this moment of democratic triumph. Compared with the unbridled euphoria that accompanied Solidarity's birth in 1980, there was little public celebrating after the election. Perhaps it was because people sensed the gravity of the moment. More important, they had seen their hopes dashed too many times before. "In Polish society, nobody has the idea of being a winner," explained Solidarity official Alfred Janowski on a visit to Washington last week. "We are so used to always losing." It was to counter such defeatism, rooted in two centuries of foreign occupation, that Walesa...
...advantages, video buffs complain about its limits. To duplicate prerecorded movies, for instance, requires two VCRs awkwardly cabled together. No wonder, then, that fans at Chicago's Consumer Electronics Show last week were excited by a new machine that eliminates the drawback. Moreover, its appearance was a triumph over well- wired opposition in Tokyo and Hollywood...
...President's triumph came not a minute too soon. The crucial NATO gathering demanded more from the U.S. than Bush's hypercautious hedging, ready or not. Ever since Gorbachev promised last December to slash Soviet forces in Europe, he had been bombarding an awed Europe with proposal after proposal to refashion the Continent's military balance, his way, while the U.S. stood idly by. And for the past two months, the U.S. and Britain had brawled with West Germany over whether and when to modernize NATO's few remaining short-range nuclear missiles in West Germany or trade them away...
...very effusiveness of the praise showered on Bush showed how much the West has been hungering for the leadership that only a U.S. President can provide. For the first time, Bush indicated that he could satisfy that hunger. Nor was his triumph just a public relations coup. It may really open the door to the most significant arms reductions since the end of World War II. Then Europe, East and West, may finally be able to give its full attention to creating a stable, open and unified continent...
Amid the genuine, and in this case unexpected, pleasure of an American President's triumph, caution remains necessary. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are a long way from disarming Europe, and the SNF controversy may come back to haunt Bush. But the President at least has removed one giant question that had hung over him since the Inauguration. He can lead the Western world. Now he must continue...