Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas. They fell in a land with which they were unfamiliar. Indeed, they were actually assassinated and did not succumb in a real and honest fight...
...Bank of Italy. Stoutest of all advocates of branch banking is Amadeo Peter Giannini, and classic example of a bank-with-branches is the Giannini-founded, Giannini-expanded Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association. California-wide institution. Last week it was revealed that soon Bank of Italy will succumb to the same forces of expansion and merging which it created. As soon as details are worked out, Bank of Italy will merge with Bank of America of California, newer Giannini institution. The new bank will be called Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, will have resources...
...absorption in this process of acquiring more things is as silly as the preoccupation of the middle ages with theological argument. . . . We must learn the secret of doing things not for people, but with people. ... If such an appreciation cannot be built up in the world, the nations will succumb to the Russian idea. There is something moving in Russia, and we have got to get ahead...