Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sukiyaki's lies in the great stone shadow of Symphony Hall, about half a block from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Building, and accessible by subway token. It is bounded on the right by the Mai Fong Chinese restaurant, and on the left by the Redy Hot Lunch Budweiser Bar and Full Gospel Chapel. The sign says "One Flight Up," next door to Mildred's School of The Ballet...
...today was quiet, and around Central High School troops were reduced in number and military precautions relaxed. At 11:25 this morning, the barricades which had been set up around the school were taken down and the guards was reduced to a token force...
...doubtful, however, that all protection will be removed from the school for many weeks, and possibly a token force may remain on duty for the school year...
...loose nouns for a dynamic verb. A PR man never "finishes" or "completes" a project; he finalizes it. By the same token, subsidiaries are activized, problems are empathized, and slack departments energized...
...first King to rule Norway as an independent monarch since the 14th century, Haakon (rhymes roughly with token) began life as Prince Carl, second son of the ruling house of Denmark, with little hope and even less desire of becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain...