Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kings, has "learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Last week, as evidence to the contrary, France acted to forestall future Algerias, by launching a new deal in "Black Africa"-the little-known French domain that sprawls all the way from below the Equator to the Sahara. See FOREIGN NEWS, Timely Token...
...Monday, the Crimson moves to Philadelphia to play a match with Penn. The Quakers should provide no more than token opposition to the varsity, for they have no courts of their own and must practice on club courts in the city...
...Token of Gratitude. The speculation was focused on the demise of Eastbourne's eccentric old (81) Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell. The cause, according to a death certificate duly filed by her physician, was "cerebral thrombosis," i.e., a stroke. In three decades of practice at Eastbourne, the physician, kindly, pudgy Dr. John Bodkin Adams, had eased the end for many an octogenarian patient, and Mrs. Morrell's timely passing caused scarcely a ripple at the bridge tables. The old lady was cremated. Her son gave Dr. Adams her old Rolls-Royce and a valuable chest of family silver...
...shuttered the blinds of his unostentatiously elegant flat at No. 5 Avenue Victor Emmanuel and lain down neatly on his bed. Then he had drawn aside his black coat and the leather locket with the gold coin that always rested on his breast like a superstitious token of his only god. and shot himself with a 9-mm. Browning pistol, neatly through the middle of his heart...
Saturday the Squash team will fly to Cornell to play a breather match with the Big Red. Cornell is playing squash on a formal basis for the first tme this year and should offer no more than token resistance to Harvard's team, undoubtedly the strongest in the Ivy League...