Word: succumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game then entered the stage that all basketball games, once the outcome has been determined, succumb to. Otherwise referred to as garbage time, this stage involves the clearing of the benches, the abandonment of team basketball, and the flagrant disregard for defense...
Over oceans, landmasses and treetops the Moon now takes her dander through the darkness, to lenses a ruined world lying in its own rubbish, but still to the naked eye the Icon of all mothers, for never shall second thoughts succumb our first-hand feelings, our only redeeming charm, our childish drive to wonder: spaced about the firmament, planets and constellations still officiously declare the glory of God, though known to be uninfluential...
...nervous, though tentative worry began to build as Ford flew on. It was that the President, just like Nixon, was finding international junketeering far more pleasurable than the grind in the Oval Office. Perhaps he was beginning to succumb to the illusion that he could outrace domestic difficulties and bring home enough of the foreign huzzahsto dispel the leadership malaise...
Unaware of this development, Republican leaders in the Senate still were worried. Would Nixon really heed their advice and succumb to the mounting pressures? Maybe he is not entirely rational about this situation, one such leader observed. And if pressed too hard, there was no way of knowing what the President's reaction might be. One concerned Senator telephoned Haig. "If we tell him it is hopeless," this Republican stressed to Haig, "that might be a factor in making up his mind." The fears of these Senators were never stated publicly - and in retrospect they seemed un founded...
...from it; we can almost say that we have profited from it. Right now we look back at it with astonishment: How did we ever allow it to happen? In a few years we will look back on it with a certain pride because we did not in fact succumb to what happened, or allow ourselves to be overwhelmed or subverted by it. On the contrary, before the situation got hopelessly out of hand, we rallied our resources, rejected it and reversed...