Word: pawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kunwar Inderjit Singh. To his neighbors in the two most populous nations in the world, the King's choice was of major significance. Tiny Nepal lies on a 4,000-ft.-to-9,000-ft. slope of the Himalayas between Red China and India, and is a pawn in the tense frontier rivalry between them. The Foreign Ministries in both countries last week probably had legitimate misgivings about how Singh will swing...
...Already." Moreover, John McClellan has finally brought his temper under control. In 1954 he returned to Arkansas to run for re-election against Fair Dealing ex-Governor Sid McMath, his bitterest political enemy. McMath knew just how to get McClellan's goat: accuse him of being a pawn of the powerful Arkansas Power & Light Co. McClellan's conservatism has often paralleled that of A.P. & L., but McMath was among the few people in Arkansas who professed to believe that John McClellan was, or could be, anybody's pawn...
Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Big Build-Up, with Jason (Long Day's Journey into Night) Robards as a young actor who became the pawn in a big motion-picture producer's gamble (color...
Syria, carved out of the Turkish Empire after World War I, gained her independence by French mandate in 1941. The period between the Wars, however, saw intense British and French maneuvering in the Arab world, machinations in which Syria was the pawn. As a result of these Western political manipulations in the area, strong anti-West sentiment festered in Syria, resentment which has remained and has been nurtured by Soviet propaganda and diplomacy...
...will not become the stooge or satellite or pawn or hireling of anybody. Just as Egypt is determined to have political independence, so also Egypt is determined to have and maintain ideological independence from all foreign ideologies such as Marxism, fascism, racism, colonialism, imperialism and atheism, all of which, incidentally, are European in origin...