Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed-On Mules." If the church-owned Monitor does not always attain its ideal balance, it is because it agrees with the Christian Scientists who comprise 85% of its readership (and 90% of its staff) that disease, death and violence are mortal "errors." Thus the Monitor gives only token coverage to top medical stories such as the Salk vaccine; it sternly downplays disaster and crime. It shuns error-prone society and show-business chitchat and runs the world's tersest obituaries (omitting the cause of death and names of survivors...
Major problems discussed centered around African sex and marriage customs such as the importance of the "bride-price" and the practice of female circumcision Some delegates advised against moving too fast in eliminating either, on grounds that to most Africans the bride price is the most tangible token of a marriage and that uncircumcised girls under present circumstances find it almost impossible to get anyone within their own tribes to marry them. "Hasty action," said one delegate, "will only create new problems-problems of husbandless women roaming the streets...
...neutralized Europe next door to Soviet land power, said Acheson, would be incapable of 1) building up confidence and economic health or 2) fending off Russian conquest by infiltration. "In many, perhaps most cases, an attack by Soviet forces faced with only token resistance would not be necessary, as it was not in Czechoslovakia in 1948 or in Poland today. Soviet purposes could be accomplished by intimidation, with the lesson of Hungary in everyone's mind. Can one doubt that, were it not for the American connection, there would be no more independent life in Western Europe than there...
...countries, thereby depriving Burma of potential export markets. Under another 1955 agreement, Russia is to "give" Burma $28 million worth of building materials and technical help toward construction of a hospital, a technological institute, a hotel, a sports arena and an exhibition hall. The agreement requires Burma, as a token of gratitude, to give Russia in return $28 million worth of rice, and so far the only progress made has been leveling of some of the building sites. But. says a Burmese official: "The Russians have been quite amiable in their personal relationships. The British, who built our engineering college...
...probably on a high place that Abraham made the everlasting covenant of his people with the Lord and received God's instructions to revive the ancient Canaanite rite of circumcision as a token of participation in that covenant. And it was also to a mountain that Abraham went, ready to perform the act that still stands as a supreme symbol of human faithfulness to God's command-the sacrifice of Isaac, his only...