Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Truman, self-removed candidate, nevertheless received a token vote of 7,500 from Democratic admirers...
...place of receipts from pay-as-you-go TV, sponsors will pay a fee for the rights to the colleges whose games they televise," said Hall. "This fee should run to about a million dollars for the season. Our committee then proposed that there be a token distribution of these proceeds to all football-playing NCAA members...
...hidden behind the general impression that all emergency facilities are available to the community as are the fire and police services-with no direct charge for the service. The cost to nonprofit hospitals of maintaining the 24-hour emergency service is [high]. Payment for the service is only token, the income falling far below the minimum costs...
...German-held segment of the Argonne. Last week four of the surviving men - Patrick J. Carroll, N.Y., Peter Finucane, The Bronx, Richard Foy, N.J. and John Duffy, Brooklyn - plus his old orderly, Samuel Silverstein, Camp Gordon, Ga., learned that Judge Patterson had left each of them a token bequest...
Winston Churchill was sailing homeward aboard the Queen Mary when Egypt's mobs swarmed through Cairo, demanding an immediate declaration of war on his nation. The U.S. State Department was leisurely considering, and disliking, Churchill's plea for a token show of U.S. force in Suez. Bloodshed in Ismailia, followed by vengeful bloodletting in Cairo, ended the false calm...