Word: succumbing
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...tempted to draw some hope from Charlie's case be warned - in my experience, it hasn't happened since. That said, it really did happen once, and though recent news sadly proclaims that young, healthy people continue to succumb to lung cancer, progress against the disease, using the drugs Charlie got, has been impressive...
...film, when it reaches its zenith of gore and guts, you can’t help but succumb to laughter at the ridiculousness...
...long puzzled even the sharpest minds why some people succumb to depression while others march on no matter what life hurls at them. An example of the latter, Peter Hamer is a retired school principal who, over the years, has endured a divorce, the deaths of both parents and a job that often frayed his nerves; he's now supporting his wife through a battle with breast cancer. To many, those hardships would sound like the normal rough and tumble of life. But they'd be enough to tip others into a state that would pass these days for clinical...
...operate the nuclear facilities. Yet again, the ambiguity of Washington’s past agreements with the Shah gives the Kremlin a fine rebuttal for any objection raised by the State Department. Moreover, Russian defense contractors, often antique leviathans from Soviet times, strongly pressure President Vladimir Putin not to succumb to “American interests” and to uphold Russian intransigency. Simply enough, Russia gets money, and Iran, nuclear technology...
...beaten by the Library of Congress!) to giving us a scant two-and-a-half hours to eat dinner, the administration systematically inhibits our growth from ignorant teens into wizened adults. Worst of all, our absurdly long reading period creates so many enticements that even a Harvard student must succumb to, god forbid, a social life. We have had to endure tea parties, Candy Land tournaments, and a parade of naked people just to pass the time. The administration is testing us, of course. This endless “reading” period is a farcical misnomer, a veritable play...