Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator." But the tribesmen concluded an uneasy truce with the central Government, surrendered a few beloved rifles as a token of good will. Only the Kurds in the north still refused to relinquish their arms, gave Gavam an excuse to say that election was being delayed...
...worry of the Administration was not military but economic strength. Strategic use of economic power was the way the Administration intended to wage the conflict with Communism. To that end the Administration had asked for aid to Greece and Turkey, and for $350 million for foreign relief. With these token forces the Administration could make cautious advances into positions on the economic front. Those positions could gradually be stabilized. But last week the front cracked right in its center. Germany faced a new food crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Marshall and Acheson meant that such token payments as aid to Greece and Turkey were only the beginning. But how far would the U.S. have to go, if it seriously intended to carry out the Truman Doctrine? What was the present invoice on the doctrine, and what did Acheson mean by "further emergency financing...
Commencement itself will follow the traditional pattern, being opened in Tercentenary Theater by the High Sheriff of Middlesex County. After convocation and a musical interlude, the Commencement Parts will be delivered by outstanding graduating scholars, and President Conant will confer the degrees by token to the various class marshals...
...token substitute remains in the so-called called "Advisory" system, which in practical application is largely limited to assistance on honor theses. The value of this assistance, like that of full-fledged tutorial, depends solely upon what the student and his usually hard-pressed adviser want to make...