Word: pawning
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...United Nations has become an absolute pawn in the hands of the Arab countries," Alan M. Dershowitz, a law school professor, said last night...
...Michael's closest associates dying by his command--his brother, his greatest rival partner and his oldest family retainer. But Vito's revenge was satisfying and to an extent just: Michael's leaves him empty and alone in his chateau on Lake Tahoe, not much more than a pawn in a long cycle of violence, that he will have to hand...
...family that at one time had a fortune of more than $300 million, and stifling to a woman who once flew the Atlantic to telephone India from London because she had difficulty making the call from the U.S. As the money ran out, the maharanee, now 54, had to pawn her jewels. But burdened with annual interest payments of $200,000, she was recently forced to sell them at a secret auction. The gems went for $4 million, which should keep the maharanee in Beluga gray for a couple of years. Her reputation for extravagance, however, was ruined. Said...
...same procedure with a little less price discrepancy can be followed for new equipment. It is unusual to get the latest style at sale prices, but recent weeks have seen an outbreak of a price war between ski shops trying to pawn off their over-stocks of 1974 models...
...theme with Shakespeare, as witness Lear, Cymbeline, Othello, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest among others) are universal, and Kahn's choice is perfectly defensible. Shakespeare specified a Verona summer. In 1866, Verona, the episcopal see of the Venetia region abutting Austria, was a hotbed of turmoil, a pawn in the seven-week Austro-Prussian War, during which it was finally ceded by Austria to Italy...