Word: pawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup by smuggling, but fell afoul of the law and paid a heavy fine. He carried off the family treasures to pawn or sell. Once he was reduced to selling lollipops to vacationing suckers at a seaside resort...
...street and in the pub still seems to like Ike and wonder who this chap Stevenson is. But the Laborite Daily Herald says: "Ike has become a pitiful pawn." The thoughtful Economist, which backed Eisenhower a few months ago, last week worried about Ike's association with Taft, wondered whether "Eisenhower, the politician, is a different man from Eisenhower, the architect of a united victory." But, added the Economist, "may the best...
...masterfully: When the Russians moved into northern Iran in 1941, many Persian landlords fled, leaving the land to their Kurdish tenants. In 1946, when the Russians pulled out and the landlords returned, they demanded five years' back rent from tenants. The tenants had no choice but to sell, pawn, borrow and pay up. There are no more bitter people in Iran today. That is why a Westerner who has been in the area for 30 years says: "If the Russians came back tomorrow, 95% of the population would stand beside the road and cheer. When the Russians were here...
...Wichita, Kans. reports by pamphlet that "the international Jewish banking fraternity" is ready "to sovietize" the U.S. Writes Winrod (whose Nazi-line pamphleteering got him indicted for sedition in 1945) : "Woodrow Wilson failed them. Franklin Roosevelt served them to the end of his days. Harry Truman remains their pawn. Dwight Eisenhower is their choice in this, the catastrophic year...
...eight days the 20,000 people of Tanjong Malim had been confined to their homes. In the brief two hours a day in which they were allowed out to buy a reduced ration of rice, they had to pawn belongings to pay shopkeepers' soaring prices...