Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet sector of Berlin there is still much rubble; the 1.5 million East Berliners have a lower standard of living and walk among propaganda posters which repeat monotonously: Down with NATO, Adenauer is a pawn of fascist generals, and the like. The combined British, French, and U.S. half of the city enjoys more wealth and a large degree of municipal self-government. In addition, the Federal Republic has moved many of its offices from Bonn to West Berlin to demonstrate its connection with the city...
...just the day before, and thus could not be given the air without formal charges. Joan's union (the Air Transport Division of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks) raised such a howl that Pan Am reinstated her. Last week Joan was back in the news as a pretty pawn in collective bargaining...
...publishers and a number of critics have made much of the novel's "economy" of presentation. It is a strange economy, an economy which reduces the 18 years of squalor to a few paragraphs, and yet sends its protagonist back to the squalor as a pawn of Guerard's "reality." It is an economy which, when employed, too often fails to satisfy the curiosity; and which, in its lapses, overelaborates the same sort of sex affair people have confessed to in railroad club cars for a quarter-century...
...address at meal's end, he promised "prompt and effective modernization of our defense organization," urged improved educational and mutual assistance programs, asked an end to partisan bickering over U.S. security. Said he: "Americans must never and will never let the issue of security and peace become a pawn of anyone's political chess game...
Those who have struck it rich have sold everything from radioactive snails to massage chairs. Mario Maccaferri, for instance, sells ukuleles. From the nadir of his career when he had to pawn his wife's jewels and was $500,000 in debt, he has developed an enterprise which manufactures 3500 ukes daily along with 500,000 clothespins, 129,000 tiles, 5000 reeds and 200 plastic guitars. The editors' character revelations, which are bound up with statistics, are usually more fascinating than the inventories. Though the Maccaferris like strumming a ukulele "the music that gives him and his wife most pleasure...