Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American elm tree, probably more than 100 years old and planted in the days of Rutherford B. Hayes, was hopelessly infected with Dutch elm dis ease. It was not the first of the elder giants to succumb, and it is not likely to be the last. But this tree - No. 75 on a White House landscape plan - was special...
...whole pro ject soon begins to deflate under the hot sun. Maybe the canvas - all those broad desert expanses and empty skies - is just too big to fill up with gags, or maybe the nostalgic pull of earlier Beau Gestes remains too strong, even at this late date, to succumb to a jokester's darts. There is a great deal of falling about in the last half of the picture, to no great humorous avail...
Diplomats and military experts agree that the scattered insurgencies have almost no chance of succeeding, in the long run. Without Western military supplies or even moral encouragement (and there is absolutely no evidence of either), even the aggressive rebels of Laos will eventually succumb to superior forces. Still, the Communists are discovering, as French colonialists and U.S. administrators learned to their sorrow, that it is a lot easier to proclaim a government in Indochina than to operate one successfully...
...supply the only possible relief: you can either laugh at them or scoff at them, deciding that they undermine the play's deeper solemnity. But Herbert still means above all to lay bare the barbarous code that prisoners live under--and what it means for men of sensibility to succumb, or not to succumb, to that code. And if you let it, this production brings home that statement with poignancy...
...previously all-male sports like football at public schools. But in Florida, as in other states where the ERA has lost, the phantom issues, not the realities, carried the day. Complains the chairwoman of Georgia's ERA Council, Dotsie Holmes: "The legislators are all too willing to succumb to the hysterical group of women who go down to the statehouse screaming, 'Please don't make me equal!' " So successful was this kind of opposition in Florida that even last-minute telephone calls by Betty Ford, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were...