Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commodity as crucial as oil should not be allowed to become the pawn when the health and welfare of the world depend upon it. One dreams of the day when an effective U.N. could be responsible for the distribution and supply of world essentials, with proper reimbursement to the nation whose boundaries encompass the needed commodity...
...same procedure with a little less price discrepency can be followed for new equipment. It is unusual to get the latest styles at sale prices, but recent weeks have seen an outbreak of a price war between ski shops trying to pawn off their overstocks of 1974 models...
Political Pawn...
Nancy Musser, president of the Guild, said yesterday that the appointment "makes the city librarian a political pawn as opposed to a professional appointment...
Trailing arch-rival City College of New York through the first three rounds of play, the Crimson pawn-pushers swept the fourth-round games. Harvard finished with 14 1/2 points, one point ahead of CCNY...