Word: pawning
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...compensate for my shallow theoretical background, I played with sheer guts. From a king pawn opening, undertaken on Reinfields's advice, I would launch into an attack trying to win a few pieces. By third grade, I had mastered the rudiments of the knight fork. By fourth grade, I was pondering the implications of the pin. For a while, I met with success--chess became a way for a runt to get back at the world...
Recognition of Cuba, the State Department reckons, is a pawn it may sometime want to use in the larger game with the U.S.S.R. Kissinger will find out this week whether other hemisphere nations are prepared to go on playing Washington's waiting game with Cuba...
Some time in the first year of his second term--no one is sure exactly when--Garrison became convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald had not assassinated President Kennedy on his own. Garrison decided that Oswald was just the pawn of an elaborate conspiracy run by the Pentagon and the CIA, based largely in New Orleans...
...commodity as crucial as oil should not be allowed to become the pawn when the health and welfare of the world depend upon it. One dreams of the day when an effective U.N. could be responsible for the distribution and supply of world essentials, with proper reimbursement to the nation whose boundaries encompass the needed commodity...
...same procedure with a little less price discrepency can be followed for new equipment. It is unusual to get the latest styles at sale prices, but recent weeks have seen an outbreak of a price war between ski shops trying to pawn off their overstocks of 1974 models...