Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statue, said Henry Luce III, who accepted it on behalf of his colleagues, was something he liked to think of as a token of French friendship for Americans. TIME'S gratitude, said Luce, was not that of "an individual visitor appreciating France, nor of a company doing business here. It is as neighbors on a particular street. It is as neighbors that we come to know each other best, and best share each other's problems...
...past six years, Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, has occasionally been wearing a magnificent leopard coat made from $30,000 worth of rare skins given her by the Somali government when she was First Lady. Last month the generous Somalis presented a similar token of their esteem to Muriel Humphrey, 55, during her African jaunt with the Vice President. Alas! The intervening years have seen the passage of a law prohibiting Government officials from accepting any gift of more than "minimal value," and Muriel had to turn the furs over to the State Department. There is a possibility, said State, that Humphrey...
...tell his allies of new and faster military pullbacks - moves that would ring down the curtain on Britain as a major armed power of the world. Unless the plans are modified in last-minute Cabinet debate before he submits the new budget to Parliament this week, all but token numbers of Britain's military, the builder of its empire and binder of its commonwealth, will pull back into the confines of Europe within 36 months...
...players the only ones building up resentments. Gasoline attendants find themselves wasting up to ten minutes per customer explaining the rules of each new game. Adding to the attendants' frustration, many drivers have taken to driving into station after station for a token gallon of gas while picking up more game chances. "America's service stations stand in danger of becoming one enormous coast-to-coast casino," warns E. D. Brockett, chairman of Gulf Oil Corp., one of the few major oil companies to abstain from the games. "Costs will rise and service will suffer," says Brockett...
...kind of "serious and sustained effort...to reach a negotiated settlement" that the Ad Hoc Committee's petition demands. Indeed, in context it appears that the scholars are recommending this small gesture not in the hope of thereby bringing the war to a speedier end, but rather as a token concession to mollify the anti-war movement here at home: "Nothing would do more to strengthen American support for our basic position," they write, than modest de-escalation...