Word: pawning
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...Useful Pawn. In San Francisco's morning field, Hearst's once dominant Examiner (circ. 278,173) is fighting for its very life against the rejuvenated Chronicle (300,131). Not only has the Chronicle stolen a circulation march on Hearst, but it is rapidly closing the advertising revenue gap. The ambition of the expansion-minded Chronicle is nothing less than total victory; it would like to drive Hearst clear out of town...
...infant electric industry. In eight years he had married and had a good position as a wiring inspector. But again he quit, scraping together $97.50 to start a tiny business making an electric socket he had designed. It failed miserably ("It was a grim year. I had to pawn my wife's kimono"), but he struggled along with subcontract work until he developed an electrical attachment plug that could be sold for 30% less than his competitors' plugs. By the time he was 27, he was a success...
...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
...with a 1961 balance-of -payments deficit that may reach $2 billion, considerably worse than originally expected. No one at Vienna suggested that the dollar was in immediate danger, but everyone was aware that one day it might be. And should the U.S. ever be forced to pawn dollars, the huge sums involved might be too much for the Fund as now constituted...
...articles in The Observer to prove Cumberland's didactic motives. Rosenberg concludes, "In view of Cumberland's instructive biases as a playwright generally, we need not, then, be surprised by the papier-mache figure that Sheva is made to cut. He is plainly little more than a pawn--not in the plot, but of the message behind the plot. 'I take credit myself,' Cumberland writes . . ., 'for the character of Abraham Abrahams. I wrote it upon principle, thinking it high time that something should be done for a persecuted race. I seconded my appeal to the charity of mankind...