Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during World War I. He opened a bazaar, buying & selling old paintings, stamps, clothes. For a time he did well, and at the peak of his prosperity represented Austria as honorary consul. Then he ran into hard times. In 1926 he closed his business, leaving 28 sealed boxes in pawn for the $5 he owed his landlady, and started peddling pencils...
...hurried analysis . . . indicates that the player pushing the red men (Stalin) has accepted white's gambit pawn but lost a knight as a result. Furthermore, the red player has not taken time by the forelock, but has remained undeveloped, while white has taken full advantage of every possibility to develop his position...
...Iran's Premier Ghavam into refusing Russian demands for immediate action on the pact. An explosion of threats and ultimatums from Moscow was countered with the warning that twenty-five million dollars worth of American military credits might be turned down if the treaty went through. Iran became the pawn in a rousing game of power politics that showed two nations battling for world leadership. The struggle is as dangerous as it is anachronistic...
...industry as essential as this should not be used as a pawn in the establishment of Reciprocal Trade Agreements. While the program may sound wonderful in theory, it is not "reciprocal" in practice. How can there be reciprocity, when we are dealing largely with countries whose economies are managed, whose currency is pegged, and who are, furthermore, largely bankrupt...
...China as an international pawn to thwart Russian expanision, and wellmeant but inept attempts to solve China's problems with inapplicable U. S. formulas were cited as two main defeate in U. S. Far Eastern policy at the fourth Law School Forum last night...