Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After once again piously reaffirming America's resolve not to succumb to terrorism by striking deals with hostage-takers, Reagan did just that. In what was sarcastically referred to as "The Swap That Wasn't a Swap," Daniloff was returned to the U.S. and the Soviet spy went home to Moscow--but it wasn't a trade, the President said. The two actions were not related...
...clinic was established in her name, and she offers a series of case histories of the famous and the obscure who entered the place as emotional basket cases and emerged as feisty, drug-free graduates. There are no miracles here, but there is a collective refusal to succumb to the temptations of self-pity or despair. Betty and Gerald Ford have witnessed some extraordinary changes in life and in politics, and the sounds that now emanate from the Betty Ford Center may be the cheery clatter of the last laugh...
Russian Research Center fellow Philip Clendenning saw as "preposterous," the notion that America, with its widespread "pick-up truck mentality" and "Moral Majority types," could possibly succumb to the bloodless victory depicted...
...based World Health Organization estimates that 2 million to 5 million Africans are now carriers of the AIDS virus. Leading researchers believe at least 50,000 people have already died of AIDS in Africa, and unless a treatment and vaccine are found, a million and a half more may succumb over the next decade...
Only those possessed by a demonic vision would condone the perpetuation of the nuclear arms race ad infinitum. But only fools, or perhaps Neville Chamberlains, would succumb to the temptation to suddenly and completely change the political and military landscape without considering the possible consequences. A Reagan-Gorbachev agreement to dismantle nuclear warheads would render both of them, at least today, the greatest leaders of modern times. Tomorrow, however, they would face the uncharted and perhaps equally perilous challenges of a nuclear world without nuclear superpowers...