Word: pawning
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Political Pawn...
Nancy Musser, president of the Guild, said yesterday that the appointment "makes the city librarian a political pawn as opposed to a professional appointment...
Trailing arch-rival City College of New York through the first three rounds of play, the Crimson pawn-pushers swept the fourth-round games. Harvard finished with 14 1/2 points, one point ahead of CCNY...
...related to neither The Thief Who Came to Dinner nor The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun. The comedy, just about as witty and well-turned as its title, centers on the catastrophes that befall a sad-sack classical musician who is selected as a pawn by a couple of squabbling espionage outfits. Made in France, probably by rote, the movie might have remained there had it not contained several sententious asides on the evils of electronic observation and every citizen's right to privacy. They lend a certain topicality, a tone of lighthearted caution, which...
...nothing to do with the universe (the stiffness of numbers, grammatical constructions) and the universe, which has nothing to do with the names we give or seize our leverage by. Let man take his reasoning place, expecting nothing, since man is not the invisible player but the player's pawn. Seize the whole board, snatch after godhood, and all turns useless waste. Such is my story...