Word: pawning
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...drinking alone. I didn't want to have to share, I didn't want to have to deal with other people. By the end of that year, I was drinking hard alcohol five or six days a week. I started to steal to pay for it, money, things to pawn. I never stole from my family. By the time I was 17, I dropped out of school, I had my own apartment. I'd wake up around noon, and drink bourbon and coffee, in that order. Then I'd go to work bussing tables, finish at midnight...
...brink of, dare anyone say it, nationhood--not in constitutional terms but, perhaps more important, in cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese and the rest of Asia as well have posited a Taiwan that is so much more than a cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now, in its eyes at least, the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course, the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap...
...national awakening and cultural flowering of, dare anyone say it, nationhood?not in constitutional terms but, perhaps more importantly, in cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese?and the rest of Asia as well?have now posited a Taiwan that is so much more than cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap operas...
McVeigh's best hope may have been to convince the jury that someone else planted the bomb or that McVeigh was simply a pawn in a vast conspiracy. His lawyers claimed that Carol Howe, a onetime informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, was prepared to testify that she had heard militia leaders discuss blowing up buildings in Tulsa and Oklahoma City and that she knew several men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah Federal Building. The government claimed that despite spending eight months as a paid informant, Howe had gathered no evidence...
...vacation in Florida. At the same time, investigators have pressed Dorsey associates for information, searching the home of Paul Skyers, another of the defeated incumbent's security-firm employees. Police have also searched Cuffy's home, where they found a 9-mm handgun, two boxes of ammunition, a pawn receipt for a gun, a recommendation letter from Dorsey, and Cuffy's passport. But they have not labeled Cuffy--or anyone--a suspect. Nor have they found the semiautomatic weapon used to kill Derwin Brown, a weapon very similar to the guns in Sunday's shoot-out. Still, they have filed...