Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tisch has tried to avoid any situations that could compromise his reputation. Says he: "American companies must be represented by people who have the highest standards of business ethics." Insider trading scandals on Wall Street, Tisch suggests, are "sad. There are certain pressures on these people that make them succumb...
...Englishwoman in Two More Under the Indian Sun observes, "Indian men have such marvelous eyes . . . When they look at you, you can't help feeling all young and nice." Foreigners succumb to this seductive appeal at their own peril. In Passion, two British roommates take up with men they find "typically Indian." They are, naturally, stark opposites. Christine goes out with a handsome Sikh officer; Betsy has an affair with a scrawny clerk who is married, sensitive to a fault and abusive to her when the mood hits him. "I suppose all passion is unhealthy," she tells Christine...
Five years after the Civil War, the Signet's founders formed their club in the hopes that it would not succumb to the politics they perceived as dominating the other 11 final clubs...
Reagan might have known that Harvard was one of the few universities not to succumb to his charisma in the 1984 election. Or maybe he was miffed that Derek Bok had decided to end the tradition of handing out honorary degrees to the anniversary speakers due to faculty grumbling. When the K-school is giving Ed Meese and Cap Weinberger specially minted commemorative medals for the Kennedy School's 50th, it's not unreasonable that their boss might expect a little piece of sheepskin from the University...
...scrappy Crimson failed to succumb to the swarming pressure...