Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale's director of Intramural Athletics became sufficiently alarmed to call in the campus cops on the case. The cops felt fairly confident that they could retrieve the missing cups because they were so recognizable that they would be impossible to pawn and melted down, they would bring little cash return...
Holden becomes a pawn of Norma Desmond's ruthless obsession: to regain her lost glory both as an actress and a woman. In need of a haven and money, he is maneuvered into joining the menage when she offers him the job of patching up the terrible scenario she has written for her comeback as Salome. Weak and reluctant, but never reluctant enough, he stays on as her gigolo...