Word: token
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...zeroed in on the Skynet military communications satellite. But Gan does not have attack capability. Its only missiles are small weather rockets, and the only plane usually on the island is an old Shackleton bomber standing by for search and rescue missions. For defense, Gan has a token supply of rifles and a few machine guns. As for the Russians, if they are anywhere around, Gan has never seen them, perhaps because it has no reconnaissance planes...
...Lehndorff, is one of the world's towering beauties -she is the international model built for basketball and known as Veruschka. In Rome she went to the première of the film Veruschka, Poetry of a Woman with its writer/director, Franco Rubartelli. The movie, originally a token of their long great-and-good friendship, now seems to have become more of a souvenir. After the show was over, he left with another model and she with another friend...
...Oregonian's Hilliard, 43, is no latecomer and-though he was originally hired as one-no token. A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952. "We deliberately hired him because he was a Negro," admits Managing Editor J. Richard Nokes. "We felt it was an oversight on a paper our size not to have Negro representation on the staff." Milliard served as sports reporter, church editor, general assignment reporter and picture editor before becoming an assistant city editor nine years...
...quiet and heat of mid-afternoon the sound of the Token's ancient hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" drifts to the Vienna from radios in the square. Strangely, the song is a colossal hit here and stations often play it a few times an hour. Many would like to believe that in the jungle and the village the revolution is sleeping too. It is more likely that it simply does not exist...
...world's tallest tax exemption to the 110-story World Trade Center, now rising, says Balk, "like a tombstone over the tip of downtown Manhattan." The twin towers are being built by the quasi-public Port of New York Authority, which is tax-exempt but will make a token payment for city services...