Word: succumbing
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...unlike New Orleans, Houston, or even Princeton University, Harvard did not succumb to superdome mania. The designs call for small, stately new buildings that maintain the character of the senior building in the area--Dillon Field House. There is room in the area for a new track, swimming pool, basketball and tennis courts, wrestling room and a hockey rink--all of which place functional priorities over ornamental values...
...lifestyles, which defuse tension by emphasizing acceptance of the individual's place in both family and society, fare well. Even those who indulge in high-fat diets suffer fewer coronaries than their American counterparts. But those who adopt the aggressive, competitive and impatient traits of most Americans increasingly succumb to the strain. The study found that Japanese who made a moderate transition to Western ways suffered 2½ times as many heart attacks as those who continued to live like their forebears. Those who plunged most fully into the stress of American life were five times as likely...
...those oarsmen who do succumb to the alluring film, Red Top quickly emerges as a highlight of the rowing experience. The 16-mile trek out to the lighthouse and back, a typical early-morning fare in the workout menu, is somehow slightly sweetened by the thoughts of an afternoon round of croquet, lawn bowling or broth following the early evening row. Red Top puts back the old-styled gentlemanliness into rowing...
...path of this patriotic parade will undergo little alteration, passing the same Howard Johnsons, the same laundromats, the same Golden Arches, the same car washes and supermarkets and bowling alleys. Through Massachusetts and Rhode Island, through Connecticut and into New York, the celebration of our nation's birth will succumb to the same contradictions that so numbed the initial ceremonies. Echoes of the shot heard round the world will become lost in the tumult of cats speeding by as housewives do their week's shopping and couples go to the movies. The gleam from the lanterns, terrestial...
...prove cloister like in their immutability, these globetrotters are more easily prey to a new, but no less powerful, set of images of worlds not realized. And within a few weeks, a month at most, the disillusioned ranks of the lovesick, the homesick, and the big city buffs will succumb to new illusions of journey and escape. Has anyone seen my sunglasses...