Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coates immediately denied any ill will toward Ward. Councillor Bernard Goldberg turned around and accused Velucci of using Ward as a pawn, trying to create an issue for his own political advantage. Vellucci only repeated his charges all the more strongly...
...uprising began in earnest on March 10 when Ky's junta dismissed Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, long considered Ky's chief rival for power within the Directory. Administration experts are convinced that the ambitious little general was only Tri Quang's pawn. "Thi's dismissal simply gave the movement a little more whammy," said a top State Department expert. In Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy's view, Tri Quang's men want to "accelerate the timetable" for a change in government in order to set up "a constitution and elections that would...
...change means an entirely different approach to student loans," he said. "The colleges are concerned with education; the banks, with profit; it is a bad mistake to downgrade education to the three balls of a pawn shop...
...espionage as a grubby, ulcer-making career at best. The movie version is a masterwork in a minor key. Avoiding formula excitement, Producer-Director Martin Ritt (Hud) achieves something far superior-a climate of still, absolute insecurity that conveys menace mainly through undertones. And Richard Burton, playing the chief pawn in an involuted cold-war plot, will be measured from now on against his full, corrosive performance here. To have read le Carré can only heighten one's relish of Burton's collision with the prickly dialogue supplied by Scenarists Guy Trosper and Paul Dehn...
...point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...