Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European prosperity. The Pact, however, states that an armed attack against any signer of the Pact "shall be considered an attack against them all." This is the assurance our nation gives to the peoples of Europe that the United States will not again sit by and watch them succumb to aggression...
...which must be overcome." These include: "complete turnover in membership each year so that mistakes resulting from inexperience are likely to be repeated"; "difficulty in locating the most competent men and persuading them to serve on its committees"; and the "real danger that on controversial issues the Council will succumb to the pressure of vociferous, organized minority groups and fail to give the issues informed and balanced consideration...
...because "there is in each of us a certain limited power of adaptation, which makes it possible for us to face without disaster, or even with positive benefit, unexpected situations." Only if the unexpected, like an overdose of vaccine, demands too much of our strength and will, do we succumb...
Answer Yes or No. More people apparently go crazy (succumb to psychoses) every year, and perhaps the majority of the U.S. is slightly daffy (neurotic), in one way or another. There are more untreated neurotics walking the streets than anyone but a policeman or a psychiatrist suspects...
...Freshman baseball team won its second game of the season yesterday at Soldiers Field, but it had to rally in the eighth inning and score the winning run in the ninth before a stubborn North-eastern nine would succumb...