Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staggers away after Act One, the perceptive theatregoer notices that the next scene is "Later that night," and takes heart. However, at 4 in the morning, John feels compelled to tell the truth about himself, while the audience suffers, before he and Katherine succumb to the inevitable...
Regarding your May 18 article on Pakistan: In a country where 85% of the people are illiterate, and with enormous problems to grapple with to rapidly raise the economic standards of the general public or else succumb to Communism-dictatorship is the ideal form of government. General Ayub Khan is out to do for Pakistan what Ataturk has done for Turkey. Give him ten to 15 years, and he will make a new nation...
...strange attachment for Greet Hofmans, the faith healer who became a sort of a nuisance in the palace (TIME, June 25, 1956). Unable to dissuade the Queen from granting the audience, her advisers hit upon a scheme that at least might assure the nation that she would not succumb to any spell again. It surrounded her with a protective guard of some of the nation's top air force and scientific...
...Strength of a Saw. Whether proud Francisco Franco will agree to such painful reforms is questionable. But even if he does not get the IMF loan, he is confident that the U.S. and other anti-Communist powers will not stand by and let his regime succumb to economic disaster. And despite all the grumbling among his people, Franco believes that their vivid memories of the bloody days when brother killed brother in Spain will keep them from open revolt. After 20 years in power, Franco's one great strength with his countrymen lies in the old Spanish saw: "Better...
...name is a Doric column in the pantheon of the great heroes of our glorious nation," said Archbishop Theoklitos, Greek Orthodox Primate of Greece, presenting Grivas with the ancient Greek symbol of victory, a silvered laurel wreath. Grivas was weeping. "Small Cyprus fought Goliath," he said. "It did not succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood of Cypriot fighters, will...