Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as did the years spent at sea. Indeed, the prophetic pessimism of Conrad's fiction can be traced to his youth; a child of the 19th century, he was tossed about in true 20th century fashion. Born in the Ukraine in 1857, he quickly became a pawn to a larger power. His father, a nobleman and Polish patriot, was convicted of political crimes by the occupying Russian authorities and sent into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother and then his father dying slowly of consumption. An orphan at eleven...
...Pawn the Library. Desperate to meet a payroll, the University of Miami once hocked $1 million worth of library books to Miami's Pan American Bank in order to secure a $400,000 short-term loan. Fortunately, that was some years ago, and today the library is safely out of hock...
...State Department official was content to say that Vietnam "was their problem now." In seeing Vietnam only as a semi-satellite nation of the Soviet Union, U.S. diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that...
...pawn my Cuisinart. If Abe Rosenthal ever found out I was part of this, he'd have me back on the police beat in Amoravia, formerly the Shoovah...
...they had plotted to promote "chauvinism" among the Chinese and persuade them to flee. One Radio Hanoi broadcast accused Peking of exploiting the refugee issue: "In the eyes of the Chinese authorities, the lives and property of the Chinese people in Viet Nam are only a political means, a pawn and a sacrificial lamb in their dark plot...