Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday afternoon, the day when TV networks pay commerce's homage to culture, CBS casually dropped a small token into its schedule: a show that offered nothing to the eye but four people talking, nothing to the ear but talk of how to use the English language properly. To the surprise of network skeptics, The Last Word proved the sleeper of 1957, demonstrated that syntax can be made almost as fascinating as sin. Rounding out its sixth month this week, the lively sleeper (now on at 6 p.m., E.D.T.) is still piling up a whopping 1,000 letters...
...group of college-age boys and girls who pay their way each year to work among the poor in London's slums-Padre Clayton knew how to get what he wanted. He first established squatter's rights to the shell of All Hallows by moving in a token supply of building materials, then promised to get the church rebuilt without drawing on Britain's scant supplies...
...nonprofit corporation, the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, began working out agreements with the Latin Americans, cutting interest rates drastically and accepting token settlements on back interest. Bolivia, the 15th and last of the governments involved, announced last week that it will resume interest payments this summer on $56 million in old bonds. Rates will start at 2% and move up gradually to 3% by 1964. A sinking fund will be started to buy up the bonds in the free market or pay them off by lots at par-$1,000 plus $100 settlement on back interest. It was a lean...
...hero for his sensational novel of the 19205, Montparnos, which established the claim of Montparnasse as a rip-roaring Bohemia to rival the prewar Montmartre, M.G.M. uncovered such unknowns as Amedeo Modigliani and Utrillo, recounts how on their first meeting the two great painters exchanged coats as a token of mutual admiration. Then one said: "You are the world's greatest painter...
...only solution left is the expansion of existing colleges, and, the argument runs, if Harvard is to keep her place as an educational leader, this means the expansion of Harvard. Of course this could be only a token expansion. To increase Harvard's enrollment by 130 per cent is a move that has never been seriously considered. But the 20 per cent expansion predicted by President Pusey would be enough to demonstrate Harvard's willingness to carry a share of the national burden. As Pusey said in announcing the move, "The leader must make a concession...