Word: token
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is that the Federal Reserve, like other branches of the government, prefers to look busy. Its latest token gesture toward action is a program of "voluntary restriction" of "unnecessary" loans which, it remarks ingenuously, "must rely on the good will of all financial institutions...
...Reverend Charles Noble, dean of Syracuse's Hendricks Chapel, said that Mather had been invited instead to deliver the Protestant service Sunday morning "as a token of good faith...
...Sinclair Lewis is not a great writer, America has never had one . . . Mark Twain was not a great writer until the American people woke up 50 years too late. By the same token, Walt Whitman was not a great writer, either. Nevertheless, when Lewis said: "I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country," drunk or sober, he was right...
...same token, Barnhart never defines a word with others more complicated or rare. Adjoin is not "to lie contiguous to," but "be next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...
...years since it began as a token of esteem for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the annual March of Dimes has collected more than 1.7 billion dimes ($170 million), the bulk of which has been used to treat polio victims. But more than $13 million has been parceled out to research groups to track down and stamp out an elusive killer. So far the dimes have done neither, but they have moved closer & closer by helping to uncover a mass of evidence that will sooner or later trap the killer...