Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NICHOLAS LAWRENCE as Ed successfully reveals an abhorrence of women and permanent attachments. David Wingrove as Kemp movingly depicts a pawn in his family's sexual struggle. Constantly walking on and looking for suppositories, the father becomes an emblem for the absolute stagnancy of the character's lives, and nothing can relieve his discomfort or ours...
...motives played an important part in Khomeini's decision to send his forces into Iraq. The Ayatullah, who was exiled to Iraq's Holy City of An Najaf after several arrests for anti-Shah activities, has never forgiven Saddam Hussein for trying to use him as a pawn in Iraqi-Iranian relations. To placate the Shah during a short-lived period of rapprochement betweeen the two countries, Saddam Hussein placed Khomeini under virtual house arrest in 1975. Three years later, as the Shah came under increasing pressure from Islamic fundamentalists operating with Khomeini's backing, Saddam agreed...
...human intellect--survives because of short--sight-edness, dogmatic inertia, and the refusal to admit mistakes. The irony is cruel--not merely absurd--in light of the fear and bewilderment of people who live near places like Three Mile Island and Ginna, who realize that their safety is a pawn in a political game. Perhaps we may yet come to our senses and start closing down the 71 plants that stand like so many monuments to blind faith in technology and technocracy. But time is short, and the danger of a disaster grows each day. Nothing that has happened lately...
...advantages of a Phi Beta Kappa key [Dec. 28] is its pawn value. In 1935 I hocked mine (Hamilton College, 1930) for $5 to help pay for food and fuel. Thomas C. Grubb Mount Vernon, Ohio
...following day Mousavi briefed the Ayatullah on Vinogradov's proposal, then officially informed the Soviets that it was under consideration. Khomeini is known to be deeply suspicious of Moscow for its role in crushing Islamic revolutionaries in Afghanistan, and is wary of allowing Iran to become a strategic pawn of either superpower. But growing numbers of the ruling clergy are beginning to believe the Soviets can be used for protection and economic assistance without compromising Iranian autonomy...