Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRENSA of Lima: On the chessboard of international rivalries, Khrushchev is now moving a pawn named Fidel Castro...
...Pawn? The explosion in Commons could hardly have been louder. From the Labor benches came angry howls of "Resign . . . resign." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, whose Laborites have long insisted that Blue Streak should not have been undertaken in the first place, was on his feet demanding an immediate investigation; when he was refused, he promised to force a vote of censure after the Easter recess. Tory backbenchers were shocked. It was, said Conservative F. W. Farey-Jones, a "calamitous" move, and one that would put Britain's proud science "in pawn to the U.S. for the next...
...into trouble with his time limit, then rushed into making weak moves. Last weekend, with 13 games left to play, Tal led by 6½ to 4½-And in the ninth game of the match, Botvinnik won only by adopting Tal's tactics: he sacrificed a pawn without apparent reason-and thereby surprised and confused the challenger who specializes in surprise arid confusion...
...Columbia, mono and stereo). Beethoven's symmetrically balanced dialogue between piano and orchestra emerges in a muscular, energetic and relentlessly logical reading. Pianist Gould and Conductor Bernstein work their bril liant moves like a pair of lifelong chess opponents who anticipate each other by the shift of a pawn...
...purpose of my party ... In this spirit I expect to support the nominees, as well as the pro gram, of the party in 1960." One para mount party problem in the 1960 cam paign will be to convince independents that Nixon is a modern Republican and not the pawn of the Old Guard right wing, as the Democrats gleefully charge (although Californian Nixon was, in fact, a modern Republican before Eisenhower was a candidate or before Rockefeller had a political gleam...