Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from being European stooges, some of the Africans emerged from hard cross-examination (as the judge remarked at the end of the trial) as simple, frank and engaging men. Last week the court declared Mboya & Co. guilty of criminal libel, slapped each with a token ?75 fine, not enough to make martyrs of them. Outside the courthouse, where thousands of Bwana Tom's followers had demonstrated only a few days before, one native forlornly waved a placard saying EIGHT MILLION AFRICANS ON TRIAL, for the benefit of the small, halfhearted crowd-and the Nairobi police phlegmatically waited to quell...
...Running Independently." No sooner were last week's totals posted than California Republicans began to scratch for explanations. Did Bill Knowland fare so badly because his job in the Senate had limited him to 14 days' pre-primary campaigning? Maybe, but by the same token, Congressman Engle, also based in Washington, led his Republican opponent handsomely, though he was far less of a statewide personality. Had Knowland stirred up a hornets' nest of organized-labor opposition with his unqualified stand for a state right-to-work law? Labor certainly was out to beat him. But Republican Goodie...
...returned to the scene of his first U.S. job (as a conductor on Philadelphia trolleys in 1906), picked up a whereas-laden scroll from the city council, honoring him for his contributions to Philadelphia culture, put on a visored cap and an owlish mood to collect a symbolic token or two. Hurok sheepishly admitted that he was fired from the job "because the dispatcher soon found out that I was letting passengers off at the wrong corners...
While the Senate wrangled last week: ¶The House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a token cut that was anticipated by the State Department, lopped $339 million off the $3.9 billion foreign aid authorization bill...
With such profits available for bribes, no crackdown short of abolishing the free zone is likely to work. Aramburu made a token start by banning importation of a few luxury items to Patagonia. Last week customs announced the arrest of three leaders of one car-smuggling ring. But in Puerto Madryn the steamer went on unloading the jewelry, 5,000 cases of whisky, 1,000 cases of rum, bales of Brussels lace, crates of fireworks. As every Patagonian knew, such choice merchandise was not going to the goats...