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the sweet proof that effort and luck briefly agreed to cooperate.
means The successful outcome of a struggle, contest, or war — the moment you come out on top.
from From Latin victoria, 'conquest, victory,' built on victor, 'one who conquers,' from the verb vincere, 'to conquer, overcome' (its past participle is victus). The same root quietly powers words like convince, evince, and invincible — all of them about overcoming something. It reached English through Old French victorie in the medieval period. The Romans even personified it as the winged goddess Victoria, the Latin twin of Greek Nike.
- named goddess
- Nike was the Greek goddess of victory
- hand sign
- V-sign for victory popularized by Churchill in WWII
- roman ritual
- victorious generals paraded in triumphs through Rome
- pyrrhic
- some wins cost more than the losses
- lap of honor
- winners circle the track to soak applause
battle of hastings — william the conqueror defeated king harold ii in 1066, changing english history
apollo 11 moon landing — neil armstrong and buzz aldrin reached the moon on july 20, 1969