Word: succumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khrushchev wrote: "You threaten us with war...We must not succumb to light-headedness and petty passions, regardless of whether elections are forth-coming in one country or another...
...Arab nations themselves, who have delightedly realized how vulnerable European countries are. The eyes of the world are now on America, waiting to see how America conducts itself through the oil crisis. I only hope it will be courageous enough not to forsake its conscience for worldly comforts and succumb to Arab pressure...
...doubts against her certitude, his emotions against her coolness, attempting to wring from her a confession of responsibility. But Lesley evades everything, seeing it only as some game, and not even a macabre one at that. The confrontation, as it must be, is a stand-off: Nicky refuses to succumb to his sister's inhumane logic but neither does he press ahead for any definitive verdict against...
...TIMES and The Post are not perfect. They sometimes succumb to the same shoddiness that plagues the rest of the newspaper world, and some of their coverage is just as inaccurate. The Times, for example, insists to this day upon calling the Vietnamese National Liberation Front the "Viet Cong," even though the term is considered highly insulting in Vietnam. A newspaper striving honestly for objectivity would report the news objectively and evenly, leaving its insults for the editorial page...
Note that both succumb to younger men. Old double standards prescribe mixed-age marriages only for older men and younger women -- so these films break one convention even while miring in much more serious ones. That's what allows the film companies and many of the public to think the films just ooze enlightenment...