Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loyal to his professional colleagues, Vandervoort believes that most doctors are likely to be baffled when women patients set their sights on them as men rather than as physicians. But his judgment of those who succumb to blandishments is harsh. He assigns them to a medical subspecies of H.L. Mencken's Boobus americanus. To the degree that a doctor surrenders to the fantasy of being irresistible, he becomes ineffective as a physician...
...cities (including St. Louis, San Francisco and Pittsburgh), but clear the way for most future arrangements of the same kind. There is no longer any legal dispute over rival papers sharing printing plants and advertising staffs. But publishers argue that without special antitrust exemption, some papers will succumb to rising production and labor costs, thus reducing the variety of editorial voices. The "newspaper preservation bill" is so protective, however, that Justice Department officials have called it "a license to fix prices," promote monopoly and suppress potential competition...
...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...
...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...
...conflict is also at the heart of will-and the only way to give it exercise. It is easier to do than to be, easier to think than to feel, easier to succumb to apathy than to take a stand. "Human will begins in a 'no.' " he writes. "The 'no' is a protest against a world we never made, and it is also an assertion of one's self in the endeavor to remold and reform the world." Elsewhere he has said: "I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point...