Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal," he said, "and paradoxically enough, while we're doing it, we must clearly avoid embracing the two myths which are anathemas to progressives today--the indispensability of the Democratic machine, and the indispensability of the Communist party. Let's not support party hacks--and let's not succumb to those great abiding tactics of intellectual terrorism practiced by the C.P.U.S.A...
...which once reached the floor of the House of Commons. The starkest of the Seven, Lawren S. Harris (whose painting matches Rockwell Kent's for sober, barren clarity), stopped the debate cold by a passionate outburst: "It is blasphemy to wilt under the weight of ages; to succumb to secondhand living; to mumble old, dead catch phrases; to praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbor's clumsiness...
...female Chagas victims there is a wasting away of breast tissues, which are composed of large, spongy cells. Could it be, Dr. Roskin wondered, that the devouring parasitic trypanosomes are especially attracted to large cells? And that cancerous tissues, which are also made up of oversized cells, might also succumb to the same parasite...
Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...
...Course of True Love. Lest the hungry French succumb too readily to the ardent Russians, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey made an opportune announcement: "During the nine months from July 1, 1945 to April 1, 1946, shipments of bread grains from the U.S. to France and French North Africa totaled 1,894,250 metric tons...