Word: tokening
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...parts of the world, except the U.S. and Canada, the boycott turned out to be little more than a token effort to dramatize how the convenience-flag vessels have cost seamen in seafaring countries thousands of jobs. While the I.T.F. estimated that around 200 vessels were hit by the boycott, the number was lower; about 125 ships were affected in the U.S., eight in Canada, 30 in Europe and the rest of the world...
...write this book," he said weeks ago, before the Kremlin clamped down. "These 40 years of storm were calling for an incarnation." In his token submission to Nikita Khrushchev and Pravda (TIME, Nov. 10-17), Pasternak recanted not a line of his book, expressed not a moment's regret that it has been published outside Russia. To a German reporter who saw him for a few moments after the Nobel announcement and the resulting political storm, Pasternak said: "I am sorry, I didn't want this to happen, all this noise . . . But I am glad I wrote this...
...ironic token of the complete reversal of the social hourglass, he lives with the daughter of his former porter. He is mocked and ridiculed. A kind of Suffering Servant, he does odd chores for his neighbors. One morning, in a Moscow trolley, he feels suffocated, tugs vainly at the window for a breath of air and dies short minutes later of a heart attack-buried alive, as the first-page parable foretold, for lack of the vital air of freedom...
...There's a new law of the land today on the integration problems of public schools," proclaimed Columnist David Lawrence, a Virginia Democrat. "Token integration now has become possible on a constitutional basis everywhere." Alabama's Lieutenant Governor-elect Albert Boutwell, one of the leading advocates of the law, talked of calling a South-wide conference to spread his doctrine. But what the Supreme Court had actually done was grant Alabama the right that it or any other state is entitled to: the presumption of good faith until otherwise proved. When and if Alabama demonstrates by its application...
...will content itself-and many a housewife-with a box of Christmas wreaths and greens. Dozens of others will cut it out altogether. The Bank of America is just sending cards-after all, the thought is what counts. Some, like Magnolia Petroleum Co.. will pass even that token...