Word: succumb
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...should the event succumb to Murphy's Law - which says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong - nobody can accuse the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of failing to warn that it might happen. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...paid the price of all that lighting up, with a record 33% of all middle-aged deaths caused by cigarettes. If smoking in China continues to climb in coming years - and without public health programs to discourage it, it likely will - an even higher proportion of its population will succumb to cancer after...
...accomplished my goal. I’ve learned that giraffes make funny runners. I’ve learned that warm milk straight from the cow is not my cup of tea. I’ve learned that Tanzania still loves Celine Dion. I’ve learned to succumb to the awkwardness of sitting in silence...
...half. He has never ceased to be smooth, open, gentlemanly, and cheerful; a man who speaks directly to the camera, doesn’t take money from lobbyists, and treats his wife with the utmost respect in public. He represents the Hope that you can win without seeming to succumb to the game. His politics is not the politics of naivety or of demagoguery. It is the politics of Hope, the politics of what-is-becoming...
...Harvard students. That the life of an investment banker has suddenly become slightly less glamorous is a good thing, because students will not acquire out-of-whack expectations from the start. It relieves them of the pressures to go into banking that so many students succumb to early on in college. Perhaps more of us will avoid the empty feeling that so many are feeling these days. This is a chance to take on realistic expectations about what one’s twenties are like in a normal lifetime–that is, the one without the expense accounts...