Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
...venture's first years were rocky ones. Employees recall a Federal pilot who had to land his jet and pawn a watch to buy fuel, and Smith claims that he once met a payroll only by winning $27,000 in Las Vegas. But Federal shot straight up after it cleared the ground. Revenue increases over the past five years averaged 41%. And in fiscal 1984 the company earned $115 million on sales of $1.4 billion. A share of Federal stock issued in 1978 at $24 is now, after several splits, worth...
...McCrystal is thus quashed in one of his many attempts to withdraw from his tenuous involvement in the Irish Republican Army. He is a mild-natured young man who falls into the organization's web by innocently doing a friend a favor and becomes a reluctant pawn. He is a peripheral puppet, rather than an 'actor', on the political stage. The father he lives with and the woman he grows to love remain non-actors. Nevertheless, the Irish 'Troubles' permeate to the core of their lives. Fear and tragedy are etched indellibly on to these, and the other characters, that...
...found several thousand dollars worth of flutes and piccolos stolen from his Adams House room in September, he wasn't content to let the Harvard and Cambridge police do the detective work for him. Slubutani, the first flutist for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, posted notices and called area pawn shops and music schools...
What little attention the U.S. has paid, has been to use the country as a military pawn. To avoid Congressional disapproval over covert military actions in Nicaragua, Reagan requested that the then-Argentina military junta and train anti-Sandinista guerilla to attack from bases in Honderas. The Argentines agreed. But when the country tried to claim the Falkland Islands, America not only dropped its pawn like a hot potato, but supported Britain in the war. Mislead by Reagan, and by their own political naivete, Argentine leaders believed themselves wholeheartedly supported by the United States, an assumption which proved wholeheartedly wrong...