Word: tokening
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...deal that enabled the sponsors of a Queens housing project to make a windfall profit of $2,400,000. Understandably pained, Democrat Levitt accused Wagner of issuing a "vile, vicious slander." The mayor, he cried, was "unfit to hold public office." As for Republican Lefkowitz, who faces only token opposition in his party primary, he spent most of the week vacationing in Saratoga...
Madsen and his study team recommended that Mexican-Americans be charged a token payment for each treatment, and get a receipt for it. because they will refuse free treatment as a despised form of charity. Finally, the curanderos should be enlisted as health aides. They can be given short courses to qualify as practical nurses, suggested Madsen. and allowed to wear uniforms or badges, and to dispense simple medicines. They should serve as go-betweens for doctors and nurses and Mexican-American patients. Then, at last, they will bring their patients to clinics and hospitals, where they can get modern...
...poem's most common syllabic pattern is a word of one short followed by two long syllables appearing at the end of a line, in 6,344 lines or 40.42% of the total lines. Sample: 'Απολλων'(Apollo). By the same token, this kind of word never once appears at mid-point in a line. Such evidence of stylistic consistency goes far to disprove the 19th century theory that many men wrote the Iliad. Scholars can still debate whether or not the author was Homer, but Computer Classicist McDonough hopes to solve...
...profs, much less dump $10,000 in their laps. Such is the unique gesture of Chicago Lawyer Leo T. Norville, 56. His startled beneficiary: History Professor Preston W. Slosson, 68, who in 40 years at the University of Michigan taught 18,000 students. Says Norville: "It was a token of affection, esteem and appreciation for what he tried to teach...
...surprising Democratic primary election in Virginia last week, Albertis Sydney Harrison Jr., the state's personable, 54-year-old attorney general, won the party's gubernatorial nomination with ease as he whipped Lieutenant Governor A.E.S. Stephens, 60, by some 45,000 votes. Harrison will face only token Republican opposition in the general election next November...