Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is little likelihood that the cocaine blizzard will soon abate. A drug habit born of a desire to escape the bad news in life is not likely to be discouraged by the bad news about the drug itself. And so middle class Americans continue to succumb to the powder's crystalline dazzle. Few are yet aware or willing to concede that at the very least, taking cocaine is dangerous to their psy chological health. It may be no easy task to reconvince them that good times are made, not sniffed...
Even so, many people delay in seeking medical help. The consequences can be fateful. More than half of the 550,000 Americans who die of heart attacks each year succumb before they reach a hospital. In a study of coronary patients at the University of Rochester, cardiologists found that the average interval between the onset of symptoms and hospitalization was 3½ hours, yet some 80% of these patients had experienced severe chest pains from the start. At least one reason for this hesitation is a belief that a heart attack always results in total incapacitation...
When he wrote The Hostage in 1958. Behan appealed to human kindness to make himself understood. The Hostage pulls off a rare dramatic teat: it's "political" without being heavy-handed, a message play that doesn't succumb to self-righteous moralizing. It takes place in a Dublin brothel where I.R.A. officers hold an eighteen-year-old British soldier hostage in reprisal for one of their own men who awaits hanging in a Belfast jail, Irish. The whorehouse-declaimed by society as a sinful place-is inhabited by a gang of cheerful, extremely humane eccentries who live by their...
...Islanders know that, but they're in a no-win position. As favorites, the best they can do is win, like they are supposed to. The worst they can do is lose succumb to the pressure and fall apart. It's a common phenomenon--the Rangers were called chokers more than once in the early...
Meanwhile, the members of the association exchange doubts and suspicions. They show signs of addiction to amphetamines Quentin gives them as part of mystical rites that have become central to the Autobiographical Association. Their struggles for sanity and survival as they succumb to Quentin's mysterious manipulations--part of an elaborate con-game--become farcical and charming. Spark's talent for dialogue and vacuous wit blooms, fertilized by the increasingly hilarious improbable set of characters and situations...