Word: tokening
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...policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support for an opponent is a token of what has happened to Singer's campaign. The impossible dream of an energetic upstart with a lot of nerve has turned into the most serious challenge to Daley's rule since his election as mayor...
...campaign." Indeed, the machine still controls 44 of Chicago's 50 wards. As the primary neared, Daley organization workers were canvassing door-to-door to deliver him enough votes to win the Feb. 25 primary, which would virtually guarantee victory in the April election over a token Republican candidate...
...Kuchar scored a token goal for the Tigers early in the third period and in the contest's final three minutes. Burke and Dagdigian each picked up their second tally. Senior defenseman Ed Rossi earned his fourth assist of the night on Burke's last goal, boosting his point total...
...great prototype and produce such majestically sensual works as Turkish Women Bathing (1854), an outdoor seraglio, a blend of Venus garden and fete champetre. In the event, it was Rubens who saved classical mythology for the romantics by rescuing it from its scholarly imbrications. By the same token, he rescued historical allegory by giving it the unique straightforwardness, the solidity and dazzle that his followers could only aspire to imitate. Perhaps no painter ever gave the word more flesh, or had more gratitude...
...Cornell. Many Indians on the reservation are critical of the state's treatment of Indians, and Patterson says she is in sort of a "precarious position" because of her mother's job. "But," she adds, "I think people are beginning to realize that she's not just a token for the state...