Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women have also been taught that they have absolutely no ability to resist attack. They learn early on that as fragile, vulnerable beings they are not physically capable of warding off attackers; they are physically doomed to submit. And yet, as Brownmiller shows, physical response from a potential victim can be a major, effective deterrent to sexual attack. Women can protect themselves by overcoming their fear of self-assertion and the belief that they are forever potential victims...
...poor sister, whose right leg is amputated at the thigh, was forced to submit at knife point, with her two-year-old daughter sleeping in the next room...
...first clue to Juan Carlos' policies will be his choice of a new government. It is expected that Premier Arias, as a matter of form, will submit his own and his Cabinet members' resignations. A dour former chief of Spain's hated internal-security apparatus, Arias has little personal ambition. "I want to be Franco's last Prime Minister but not Juan Carlos' first one," he once confided to a friend. Nonetheless, if Juan Carlos urges Arias to carry on in office with his ministers, that will be interpreted by the left as a signal...
Drinan criticized Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton and President Ford for their failure to take action against corporations that submit to the boycott...
...GSAS has already undertaken a less ambitious program, whereby the primary GSAS feeder schools will submit to participating graduate schools the names of all highly qualified college seniors as potential applicants. One GSAS administrator has already said she objects to making this program nation-wide, because the GSAS applicant pool is and should remain highly selective. Statements such as this one defeat the purpose of a recruiting plan, for students at the highly selective feeder schools are certainly not the ones who need to be pulled into the applicant pool. It is the students at state schools and less prestigious...