Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despair lent the murderers courage to face their fate. Meekly they surrendered and asked a Roman Catholic priest to baptize them. Then, all eight squatted on the ground and kissed a handful of red earth in token of their love for the land. A few minutes later, as the morning golfers watched, they disappeared up the ramp leading to the hidden gallows. "The executions," said an official bulletin, "were carried out according...
...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...
...longtime board chairman of Morgan's banking house. Largest slice of the bequest ($2,950,000) went to women's colleges because "women's education is just as important for our country as men's education." Items: to Smith College, $1,200,000 as a "token of my special indebtedness for four happy and stimulating years there"; to Barnard College, $500,000 for being "the leading women's college of my home city"; to Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, Vassar and Columbia, $250,000 each; to the Harvard Divinity School, $250,000 on condition...
Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd insisted that a token U.S. force in Korea was just as important a deterrent to Communist aggression as U.S. token forces of the time in Berlin and Vienna. Said Judd: "I am convinced that if we keep even a battalion [in Korea], [the Russians] are not going to move...
...same token, we have no sport in which any of the participants risks death to the extent the bull fighter does. Bull-fighting puts teeth in the old Grant-land Rice quatrain about it not mattering whether you win or lose but how you play the game...