Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night Dr. Marshall faced the board of trustees. "Our concern," he explained, "is that we do right, and if we do right, God will see that we come out right." Despite token resistance from some West Texas trustees, the board decided that to "do right" was to open "the academic facilities of Wayland College . . . to students of all races and nationalities...
Mercifully, the script omits the standard love interest. As if only for the record, it briefly establishes Ladd's romantic prowess in a token dalliance with Stewart's blonde mistress (well played by Jan Sterling). The real leading lady is a nun (Phyllis Calvert) who needs his protection as the only witness to the murder. Inspector Ladd, who usually measures his fellow man with cynical suspicion, soon finds himself softening under the example of her unselfish sense of duty. At this late date, moviegoers should not be surprised to learn that Nun Calvert wears lipstick and coaches baseball...
...marching decisively in 1951. Inflation remains the country's greatest problem and peril, but the threat of World War III has given the economy a temporary lift. The war, Argentines feel sure, will not be their war; ever since sentiment flared up last summer against sending even token forces to Korea, Perón has proclaimed that Argentines will defend their own black soil, and no more...
...Token of her new status was last month's commission to design the new convent's windows. She is giving the project much thought, but there is no hurrying her. Instead of beginning sketches at once, she went right ahead with her etchings to illustrate the Gospel of St. Luke. "I have ideas, yes," she said. "But I am not ready to begin...
...central front, where the Chinese had momentarily stalled, the marines broke contact and pulled out of Chunchon to the south. Before quitting the town, they left a grisly token for the Chinese. On the pillars at the north end of a bridge, they placed two Chinese skulls wearing bullet-punctured Russian helmets...