Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named for Vienna Actor August Wilhelm Iffland (1759-1814), who, smitten with a younger actor's performance, presented him with the ring, instructed him to name his own successor in the next generation. Although Iffland wanted his token of stage greatness passed on forever, Basserman, who got the ring in 1908, sadly decided that it was cursed after three actors, to whom he successively planned to give it, all died, shortly thereafter. In 1946 he gave the heirloom to Vienna's Municipal Museum...
...carefully avoided any phrasing which would threaten a final break, but the Reds, who had suffered from temporary interruptions before, seemed anxious that the daily meetings continue. They did continue-in the form of 10-to-20-minute token sessions, mostly given over to Red stalling and propaganda. Perhaps the Communists were afraid that a breakoff would lead to heavier fighting, and that the defections in the U.N. prison camps-which had obviously surprised them-might spread to their fighting armies...
...first part in his first real-estate deal. The little parish of Kingswear in Devon wanted to buy five acres of his land for a children's play park and finally managed to scrape up the ?5 ($14) which the Duchy of Cornwall said would do for a token payment...
...attack on the U.S.; enough transports to service the strike force at overseas bases, and fighters to escort the bombers on their missions; at least 30 wings of all-weather jet fighters to intercept enemy bombers. Until these minimums are achieved, the Army & Navy should be cut to "token" appropriations...
...around Albany, N.Y., 368 bars had been caught watering their whisky. The Internal Revenue Bureau let them off with token fines, and the bureau's Chief Counsel Charles Oliphant declared that such "confidential compromises" were none of the public's business. (Oliphant resigned during the investigation of tax scandals...