Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stiles charges that N.C.A.T.E. is actually a pawn of the National Education Association. Stiles's evidence: 64% of N.C.A.T.E.'s money comes from N.E.A. and 13 of its 19 members represent N.E.A. affiliates. N.C.A.T.E.'s Director W. Earl Armstrong denies N.E.A. domination by saying that "some Methodists are members of the Republican Party, too, but that doesn't mean they control...
India and Red China have exchanged more diplomatic notes than bullets in their territorial wrangle over the disputed Himalayan border between the two countries. Last week China passed India its 76th note in nine months-and clearly indicated that it thought its southern neighbor was the pawn in what Jawaharlal Nehru has described as a "game of military chess" along the ill-defined frontier...
With the aid of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the circulars are being distributed to pawn shops, museums, and private collectors throughout the country...
...Useful Pawn. In San Francisco's morning field, Hearst's once dominant Examiner (circ. 278,173) is fighting for its very life against the rejuvenated Chronicle (300,131). Not only has the Chronicle stolen a circulation march on Hearst, but it is rapidly closing the advertising revenue gap. The ambition of the expansion-minded Chronicle is nothing less than total victory; it would like to drive Hearst clear out of town...
...since the Examiner was Pop Hearst's first paper, Junior feels a strong sentimental attachment that will not let him yield. In his morning struggle with the Chronicle, the evening Call-Bulletin (the word News will be dropped from the masthead), oddly enough, may prove a useful pawn. Through advertising tie-ins between his morning and evening papers, Hearst may be able to undercut the Chronicle rates. Furthermore, Bill Hearst is well aware that should he ever abandon San Francisco's evening field, he would leave it wide open for the Chronicle-which could then move...