Word: succumbing
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...years ago, Dr. William Henry was ready to succumb to his annual urge and quit his general practice in rural Twisp, Wash. (pop. 750). As the only full-time physician in a 500-sq.-mi. area, Henry was so overworked that he seldom read a medical journal and never had a vacation. But last year the doctor got expert help from Carl Chillquist, a former Army medic. As Henry's paraprofessional aide, Chillquist enabled the doctor to see many more patients, skim those journals, and even get away for skiing and fishing. In recent years, Twisp itself has never...
...Chopin's letters as a 'potpourri of Polish airs,' and mazurka rhythms are more or less everywhere (although I hear Spanish music, quite interestingly, in there, too). But the second movement is no doubt the high point of the concerto. Even unregenerate anti-Chopin-mongers have been known to succumb (no doubt caught off guard) to the charm of this piece...
...assembled twenty-eight new movies, three of them American. New York, God knows, breeds a certain kind of self-conscious hip, and New York film-makers specialize in almost preternatural disaffection. The film critics in that town, who often address their reviews to moot points raised by colleagues, frequently succumb to sinful postures, not the worst of which is seeing one-self as cosmic arbiter of good taste. If the audiences which attended the critics' showings are any index of the stance which such enlightened viewers take towards movies, then most modern films are being scrutinized through rose-tinted glasses...
...period as troubled and uncertain as any in our history, echoing my predecessors' words. I would say something quite similar to what has been said here so many times in the past, urging you not, from a feeling of helplessness, either to surrender to rage or to succumb to self-pity, but rather to go forth and be strong. Beyond this, since in such enterprise you will surely need help-as others who have gone before you have needed help-I would add a further prayer, that the grace of God may go with you and sustain you wherever...
...totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. to refuse to become frustrated and angry: to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair: and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have come truly to understand the role of humane learning...