Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...currently on the outs with Sukarno, made Vice President or Premier. The alternative was a fragmenting of the country, with oil-rich Sumatra seeking some kind of autonomy. Said Colonel Simbolon confidently: "The national army is now so badly rent internally that it is unable to put anything but token pressure...
...spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses." In the '305, when the Met was being refurbished, a Texan had one of the plush seats sent to him so that he could "listen in style." One devotee left the Met $2,000 in her will "as a token of my sincere appreciation" for the broadcasts. (One year a third of the Met's million-dollar contributions came from radio listeners.) And a cowboy wrote that he liked to strap a radio to his saddle and gallop across the mesa to The Ride of the Valkyries...
...immediate lifting of the state of emergency in Cyprus. But Makarios would "obviously" be a participant in future discussions on the status of Cyprus, and, in the meantime, the government was prepared to offer safe-conduct out of Cyprus to any EOKA member who wanted to leave. (As a token of good faith, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the Governor of Cyprus, called off a dragnet operation by 3,000 British troops who in Harding's confident view were on the verge of capturing Colonel George Grivas, EOKA's Greek commander...
Otherwise, the varsity track team is sending only a token entry to the eleven team meet. None of the other Eastern track powers is expected to be represented...
Less than 48 hours before Christian Pineau outlined his bold "Eurafrica" scheme to the U.N., the French National Assembly hastily supplied him with a timely token of France's good intentions in Africa. In a predawn ballot that suggested that the lessons of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria had finally penetrated the French consciousness, the Deputies voted to give a limited degree of self-rule to the island of Madagascar and twelve provinces of "Black Africa...