Word: succumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started out at the White House, where he warmly welcomed India's frail-looking but still vigorous Prime Minister, the 82-year-old Morarji Desai. Carter praised his Indian guest for having willingly gone to jail rather than succumb to the restrictions on freedom during the period of Emergency Rule under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Desai responded that both India and the U.S. were bound by "an unshakable commitment to the dignity of the individual" -an endorsement of Carter's position on human rights...
...Mouse is his best film in a long while, but like A Man and a Woman and Happy New Year, it only works on its own sentimental terms. Look for deeper, darker meanings and you'll discover a vacuum. Luckily, Lelouch makes it easy for an audience to succumb to his fluff. His sincerity is so complete and his style so lyrical that all but the terminally cynical can suspend disbelief and enlist in the joyride...
...profligate professor named Pease Conquered co-eds with consummate ease, And while most would succumb On the spot, there were some Whom he had to seduce by degrees...
...George Furth focuses on the travails of Bobby, a single man in his mid-30s surrounded by "those good, crazy people, my married friends." He drifts from one of the five supporting couples to another, watching them bicker and age together, wondering when and if he, too, will succumb to the marital trap...
...eighth big White House elm to succumb to Dutch elm disease...