A how-to appendix spells out how wives should keep their "surrendering" a secret from their husbands and band together in circles to strengthen their resolve.
It's ours to keep or surrender as we choose.
And then getting my hair pulled by a man who kept whispering "surrender to me" into my ear.
It was, Bellow later recalled, a novel featuring "two men in a hospital room, one dying, the other trying to keep him from surrendering to death", their dialogue developing the question of whether our "original nature is murderous".
This meant that Proust's reader had to keep reading blindly, surrendering to the whim and mercy of an author who would disclose the noun only after the reader's temporary loss of bearings had achieved its desired effect.
It takes place in Paris, in 1949, when the thirty-four-year-old Bellow, sustained by a grant and an advance, was working on a novella, "The Crab and the Butterfly," which he later described as the tale of "two men in a hospital room, one dying, the other trying to keep him from surrendering to death".
Kennedy was also accused of breaking a pledge that he and 16 other journalists had made to keep the surrender a secret for a time, as a condition of being allowed to witness it firsthand.
Urged by the Athenian exile Alcibiades to send a general to take charge of the defense of Syracuse, the Spartans appointed Gylippus, and his arrival in 414 kept Syracuse from surrendering.
This fear however, isn't what has kept me from surrendering to my usual social media compulsion.
Now, a little more than two decades later, the stately homes on Spyglass Circle and Pebble Beach Drive have been evacuated and the 18th hole is under six feet of water, as miles of newly built levees strain to keep this community from surrendering to a historic flood.
"They want to keep him until he surrenders and gets broken," she said, wiping tears from her eyes.
