Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retorted a group of eleven Jewish organizations: "It is with sorrow and anger that we note these statements. We cannot work with those who resort to half-truths, lies and bigotry in any guise or from any source. . . We cannot work with those who would succumb to Arab blackmail...
There is an omnipresent temptation to succumb: "The mathematics of self-pity can be raised to infinity." Instead, although convinced from the beginning that his disease is fatal, Ryan sets out with reportorial objectivity to give battle and to keep accounts. He travels from his Connecticut home to Europe and the West Coast in search of the latest treatments and carefully monitors his progress...
...them. However, I react strangely when I hear about the high school All-American hockey player who was just accepted with a 375 verbal SAT score (you get 200 points for signing your name). I don't feel good when I read about hallowed high school athletes who quickly succumb to the pressures of life off the field at Harvard. They withdraw from Cambridge, perhaps never to be heard from again. They come here thinking that it will somehow all fall into place for them as it did in high school, where they were walking idols. But the Beaulieus...
...consider sport a metaphor for life is sad. To think of sport as life itself is tragic. None succumb to this delusion more readily than ghetto youth, for whom athletics is both a means of escape and an opportunity for approval. And none have described the process better than Pat Jordan. His own decline as a professional pitcher was recollected in the poignant autobiography A False Spring. Four years ater, he turns from the diamond to the court to watch basketball players yield to the pressures of ambition, and to the damning testimony of their skills...
...will provide arms to the blacks (this would, of course, be more effective than divestiture), as other signatories of this letter do. Divestiture is the only sort of pressure that can be sustained on a large scale and would have tremendous impact. It is well known that countries do succumb to such pressures. The best argument for divestiture is the support for economic sanctions that is given by black South Africans abroad and by liberal white South Africans, like Donald Woods...