Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without Discrimination." One rule was firm: the U.S. would not withhold food from any peoples who were starving -not even the enemies of democracy. But, by the same token, nondemocratic nations drawing U.S. relief would not be allowed to starve the friends of democracy. Distribution must be "without discrimination as to race, creed or political belief...
What really made Tisman sore was that the police discriminated against him in favor of other gamblers. Police made token raids against small fry, which was "like raiding a bank and arresting the janitor." But they had closed him up tight a few times and caused him to lose a lot of business. His-brother Harry Tisman gravely corroborated this. "You had to pay to stay in business," he said. "It was just like the B.C. Electric-you had to pay your bill or you were...
...number of offerings to the point where most students will find something worth taking, either for concentration or for distribution. But most of the other departments stand precisely where they stood last summer, and English has retreated from last year's wide selection of five undergraduate courses to a token three...
...Frachon played cat-&-mouse. France twitched and jumped with "token" strikes, ranging from the theater ushers, who would not take patrons to their seats, to the Paris police, who struck for four hours.* At the same time the subway workers struck. A stockbroker, Louis Molinier, watched the resulting traffic snarl in the Place de la Concorde. He pulled his coat collar up against the wind, shivered, and said: "It gives you the impression that a thousand men with rifles could take over the whole city...
...British, Go!" Who could bring peace to a land thus split by doubt and fear and bordered by its neighbors' militant hatreds? The British, who had come to Greece as liberators, had failed. The presence even of a friendly, homesick, token-size British army hurt Greek philotimo (the kind of sensitive self-esteem that makes a Greek waiter deliberately dawdle if he is harshly addressed, and a Greek day laborer feel equal to his King). Others besides Communists hummed the popular Communist ditty: "British, Go from Our Land!" In Athens last week, a fashionable young lady remarked...