Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups held a clear majority, there were hopes for a coalition government between the three. None of the Angolan soldiers are particularly well trained, but their will to fight has been stiffened by a bewildering array of mercenaries as Angola more and more becomes a big-power pawn and a battleground...
...brigade of intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler and George Orwell, had their lives and work shaped irrevocably by their experiences in Spain. "As a militiaman," George Orwell later wrote in Homage to Catalonia, "one was a soldier against Franco, but one was also a pawn in an enormous struggle that was being fought out between political theories." Albert Camus observed afterwards: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this...
...United Nations has become an absolute pawn in the hands of the Arab countries," Alan M. Dershowitz, a law school professor, said last night...
...Michael's closest associates dying by his command--his brother, his greatest rival partner and his oldest family retainer. But Vito's revenge was satisfying and to an extent just: Michael's leaves him empty and alone in his chateau on Lake Tahoe, not much more than a pawn in a long cycle of violence, that he will have to hand...
...family that at one time had a fortune of more than $300 million, and stifling to a woman who once flew the Atlantic to telephone India from London because she had difficulty making the call from the U.S. As the money ran out, the maharanee, now 54, had to pawn her jewels. But burdened with annual interest payments of $200,000, she was recently forced to sell them at a secret auction. The gems went for $4 million, which should keep the maharanee in Beluga gray for a couple of years. Her reputation for extravagance, however, was ruined. Said...