Word: pawning
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Adams missed the thrill of anticipation that has become part and parcel of a year's residence in Cambridge; the thrill of horror before the perennial epidemic of German measles: the sense of being a pawn in the hands of fate as the onslaught sweeps unchecked from House to House...
...knots) and best armed (two 8-in. guns) of all the twelve cruisers of the Chinese Navy. But its poor old sister wallows along at less than ten knots. The two ships' toughest problem for decades has been to find a paymaster. Half the time they are in pawn for coal bills, their crews unpaid, a gun or two sold for scrap. In desperation ever since 1917, the commanders have been trying to pick a sure thing...
...appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been a warning, a salute, a welcome and that there...
When medals and decorations which had been showered on him by cities and States began turning up in pawn shops, Acosta explained they had been "stolen." In 1930 his wife had him jailed for nonsupport. When that failed to regenerate him, he was sentenced to six months for abandonment. On his release he was welcomed with open arms by his wife and two sons. Said the warden: ''He was the best man we ever had in jail here...
...cradle's in pawn...