Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slowed. But there are few estates that do not face their annual nightmare of rising damp, falling cornices, skyrocketing repair bills and shrinking rents. These shared threats induce the mood of solidarity fondly guyed by Noel Coward decades ago: "Though if the Van Dycks have to go/ And we pawn the Bechstein Grand,/ We'll stand/ By the Stately Homes of England." As one should, for there is no parallel to the stubborn integrity of their collections among the stripped and much-looted palaces across the Channel...
Kampuchea offers a more extreme example. The anti-Vietnamese (hence anti- Soviet) resistance there includes the Khmer Rouge forces of Pol Pot, the deposed tyrant of that benighted country. He might be a pawn on the international chessboard; but, having presided over the murder of as many as 2 million of his own countrymen, he can hardly be called a freedom fighter...
...woman who was a witness in the Goetz case who was scared to death," District Attorney Robert Morgenthau says. "If her name was disclosed, she wouldn't have testified." But critics say the secret presentation of evidence allows the prosecutor to use the grand jury as a political pawn. "The opportunity for abuse is too great and the opportunity for scrutiny too little," says Ivar Goldart, a New York Legal Aid Society lawyer...
...fair lady of Chess is Paige, a petite blond in her 30s who was the first London-stage Evita. In Chess, Paige's Florence is the captive-nation emotional pawn of two superpower egotists; the numbers written for her investigate the dark, angry range where Paige's powerful soprano lives. The show's best song, Nobody's Side, has Florence offering words to the wounded ("Never stay too long in your bed,/ Never lose your heart, use your head"), and Paige taunts the lyric into an anthem of cold-steel defiance. Here she evokes the clarion brass of Ethel Merman...
...WASN'T JUST Max and Werner across the hall who are happy about the results. I know those weapon over in P-entry who have the breaded reactor in their suite are feeling better. The master's assistant says she's glad she won't have to find a pawn shop for that plutonium anklet she was on special occasions. And that gang up in D-51 is glad they don't have to take down their early-warning radar system...