Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the U.S. Communist Party had expelled him, it had looked as though he were just another pawn sacrificed in one of the Kremlin's policy plays. But now, Browder looked less like a pawn, more like a knight on Communism's big board...
...brutality, they sensed a capacity for the terrorism with which a revolutionary minority must always exert its rule over an overwhelming majority. In his intellectual aridity, they sensed an embodiment of that bleakness inseparable from a philosophy which makes man, even for his ultimate greater glory, the pawn of purely materialist forces...
...fine Austrian hand which is responsible for the picture's most memorable moments--Birnam's organized, stumbling search down New York's Third Avenue in search of an open pawn shop, the nightmarish scene of delirium in Bellevue's alcholic ward, Birnam's whirling crash down a whole flight of stairs...
This attitude was not confined to U.S. scientists. Wrote the science editor of London's News Chronicle: "The cataclysm of Hiroshima has shocked the scientists into revolt. . . . Atomic energy [is] being used now as a pawn of power politics. They [the scientists] do not disclaim responsibility; they insist upon taking it. . . . They want a positive voice in public affairs...
...championships of Russia's national indoor game some 700,000 competed in 1936. The game: chess. This week, with short-wave radio bridging Moscow and Manhattan, the Russians tried their hand at international competition.-A queen's pawn was nudged ahead two squares...