Word: tokening
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...token political opposition, headed by a pair of oft-jailed oldsters, was unlikely to make trouble anyway. But many a veteran Guardia officer, serving the brusque, quick-tempered Tachito only because Tacho said to, might feel that loyalty had gone far enough. That would be Tachito's headache...
...former Democratic national chairman. After three hours Daley & Co. brought out of the hat a name from among the "also mentioned"-Chicago Superior Judge Richard B. Austin. Quickly the word was telephoned to the Cook County delegation, which controls the committee by a 13-12 vote. The result: after token resistance from downstaters, Judge Austin was nominated unanimously on the first ballot as the hand-picked candidate of the Chicago machine...
However small, the victory margin opened the door to the governorship for Daniel, who will face only token Republican opposition in November. He is expected to resign his Senate seat some time between the general election and his January inauguration, in which case his successor will be picked in a singleshot, leader-take-all special election. Already a declared Senate candidate and the early favorite: ultraconservative, Red-chasing Congressman at Large Martin Dies. Likely to give Dies his toughest competition: Ralph Yarborough...
...other's way, there was actually no competition between the TV screen and the printed word. They supplemented each other. When it came to speed and high fidelity to the news at the instant it was breaking, TV was in a class of its own. By the same token, for those who could not spend hours before a TV screen or who wanted the story rounded up and interpreted, readable at their own pace and convenience (and available for future reference), the printed page was worth a thousand TV pictures...
...Young Cooper had made an incision in the wrong place, tried to force an opening into the bladder with forceps, finally turned to his unanesthetized patient a few minutes before he died and complained petulantly that he could not imagine how he had failed. The Lancet was fined a token ?100 for printing that story, but had the satisfaction of seeing Parliament appoint a commission to study monopolistic practices in medicine...