Word: pawning
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...eight days the 20,000 people of Tanjong Malim had been confined to their homes. In the brief two hours a day in which they were allowed out to buy a reduced ration of rice, they had to pawn belongings to pay shopkeepers' soaring prices...
...last week to denounce Czechoslovakia's "grotesque performance" in imprisoning A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (TIME, May 7 et seq.). Since Oatis was merely performing the routine duties of a reporter, Tobias said, the U.S. will never "cease to protest the use of William Oatis as a pawn in the suppression of freedom." Added Belgian Delegate Fernand Dehousse: The Communist's definition of a good reporter is one who "must believe the word of the Czech government... or else be considered...
...Stadium hardly resembles a pawn shop, but there is a connection in the mind of tackle Bob Stargel. Once the senior was faced with the choice of being a football player or a pawn broker, and football...
...youth in Cincinnati, Stargel was working after school as a stock boy in a pawn shop and doing quite well. But in the fall of his sophomore year, he was faced with the choice of giving up his pawn shop job to play football or foregoing the gridiron...
Stargel's mother and brother stepped in at this point to help him make up his mind. They persuaded the husky youth that football was more in his line than pawn shopping, and would, in the long run, do him more good. He decided to try for the Walnut Hills high school varsity, and made it with ease. For three years, he divided his time between tackle, end, fullback and tailback. The concluded his scholastic football career in the annual North-South all-star high school football game...