Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collage requires an agile audience. The leap between words and meaning is enormous; to make it is to participate in the art. Dylan's words, falling out of time and place, often admit of no leap. "In ceremonies of the horsemen even the pawn must hold a grudge." Does the charge come from sound or meaning? Is this communication or anarchy? If anarchy, one wants to know why so many of us respond because Dylan is not alone, only ahead of other pop artists and singers, all the masters of the put-on. Once upon a time we had Ruby...
...year. The city, which pays teachers from $5,800 to $10,000, offered $600 and a one-week school-year reduction. Governor George Romney ruled out any increase in state funds to boost salaries and insisted it was "intolerable that the education of children should be used as a pawn in negotiations...
...turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge on Israel. Russia chose to arm the fantasy. In the end, Nasser bluffed and blustered himself into war and defeat, and mortgaged his country as a pawn of the Soviet power struggle against the West...
Object of the Game: to be the first player to move your pawn-supposedly a Viet Cong defector-from either of the two starting squares (1) to the Open Arms defection centers...
...Executive Council is frequently accused of being the obstructionist pawn of the state's Democratic legislative leadership. It could demonstrate independence as well as wisdom tomorrow afternoon by advising the Governor to proclaim a special session of the General Court...