Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pawn, a dean can check, sometimes stalemate a bishop. Bishop Manning, a High Churchman, and his Low-Church dean, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, frequently checked each other.* In 1929, Dean Robbins resigned, was succeeded by the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates, benevolent but bumbling. Last November Dean Gates died...
...hour for putting British liberties temporarily in pawn as a means of strengthening the kingdom's effort to snatch victory from the jaws of Blitzkrieg struck in the House of Commons last week. For reasons of high politics Winston Churchill was not there. This greatest of Conservative orators knows when it is more fitting to let others speak. An airplane had hustled the Prime Minister to France for a meeting of the Allied Supreme War Council...
Eighty-five percent of the world's productive veins of quicksilver ore (cinnabar) lie in Spain and Italy. The great Spanish mine of Almaden, worked at least since Hannibal's time, was a prime pawn in the late Spanish war. A European cartel, pioneered by the Rothschilds, controls the world price. No. 1 world consumer, the U. S. uses 25,000 to 35,000 flasks * a year, normally buys half its quicksilver from the cartel, produces nearly all the rest itself...
Although the $75 watch was recovered by the police yesterday in a Roxbury pawn shop, the culprit, who was described by the proprietor as a "man of about 32 years," is as yet undiscovered...
...Minister Christian E. Günther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have to favor those two nations. Germans, taking this...