Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who thought the U.S. should be "the world's shmoo and who are always shaking themselves to pieces lest other countries have a bad opinion of us." The peril-point provision would simply allow Congress "to judge the extent to which our domestic producers have become the pawn of diplomacy...
...think of anything else. The Department was formed in 1946 by slicing the big names and titles out of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology and has in its scope anything pertaining to man as a functioning organism, as a force acting upon other men, and as a pawn in the fist of history and economics...
...imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last dollar, he went to the East River to drown himself. A drunken Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman offered him a ride to Tonawanda. He gave up suicide, set out the next day to pawn his watch. On the way he met brother Paul, who tearfully pressed a roll of bills into his hand and sent him to a sanatorium for rest...
...issues in the joint examination controversy have become needlessly complicated in the past few weeks by half-baked words and actions in various places of authority on both sides of the Common. Radcliffe's administration is trying to pawn the whole thing off as a question of procedural simplification, and has plowed ahead despite the over-whelming opposition from the student body. Provest Buck has declared it a question to be decided by the undergraduates, and the Student Council has acted on this theory by approving the program for Harvard without so much as an informal student poll...
Paul added that "growing antagonism" to the plaque idea, as exemplified in a Boston Globe editorial last Saturday, might help swing the tide. The editorial stated that "present undergraduate students, so many of whose lives were in pawn" should have the strongest voice in a choice...