Word: pawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved in the hippie movement, then found Jesus and set up a mission in the Haight-Ashbury wilderness. "We told the protesters that they were fundamentally right in their critique of society but that their answers were inadequate." He was accused of being a fascist, or a pawn...
...terrified" that a prison guard or a local deputy might spot Ray and kill him. If that happened, both the President and the Attorney General realize, there would be no way to convince the conspiracy theorists?whose ranks would certainly swell?that Ray had been anything other than a pawn manipulated by the real killers of Martin Luther King...
...author enough money to buy an ocean liner of his own. Part of its appeal is probably misplaced: those drawn to the book expecting new tales of aristocratic bravery in the face of death are bound for disappointment, for Cussler has simply used the old wreck as a pawn in a far-fetched modern spy thriller. But the book tries to make up for the deception with a smorgasbord of romantic espionage, classical sleuthing and high-seas heroism, and the formula seems to have worked. Though so egregiously trite and poorly written that the souls of Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie...
...arrest was part of an intense human and political drama that involved the Soviet Union, other European Communist countries and parties, the U.S., the Western press and countless known as well as obscure subjects of Communist rule. Each of the participants was sometimes an instigator, sometimes a pawn...
...Harvard professor, who was fired Monday from the board of directors of a New York publishing firm, yesterday called himself a "pawn" in the struggle for control of that firm...