Word: pawning
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...Davidenkov, Russian heart specialist, to attend ailing Maurice Thorez. Next morning every registered doctor in Paris received a Paix et Liberté pamphlet. "A snub to the medical profession!" cried the tract. "Are French doctors unworthy or inefficient?" Yelped the Communist press: "Neo-Goebbelism . . . David is a Wall Street pawn...
...Yale's director of Intramural Athletics became sufficiently alarmed to call in the campus cops on the case. The cops felt fairly confident that they could retrieve the missing cups because they were so recognizable that they would be impossible to pawn and melted down, they would bring little cash return...
Holden becomes a pawn of Norma Desmond's ruthless obsession: to regain her lost glory both as an actress and a woman. In need of a haven and money, he is maneuvered into joining the menage when she offers him the job of patching up the terrible scenario she has written for her comeback as Salome. Weak and reluctant, but never reluctant enough, he stays on as her gigolo...
...those who thought the U.S. should be "the world's shmoo and who are always shaking themselves to pieces lest other countries have a bad opinion of us." The peril-point provision would simply allow Congress "to judge the extent to which our domestic producers have become the pawn of diplomacy...
...think of anything else. The Department was formed in 1946 by slicing the big names and titles out of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology and has in its scope anything pertaining to man as a functioning organism, as a force acting upon other men, and as a pawn in the fist of history and economics...