Word: tokening
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...asking that swimming be elevated from a minor to a major sport. This was done and swimming has retained its "major" status ever since. Though no discredit to swimming, this incident illustrates the unfortunate arbitrariness of the present athletic letter system. A varsity letter shod primarily be a personal token of recognition which the College gives to a player. Only as a secondary function should a letter distinguish a player from the rest of the student body. But the policy of the Athletic Association has made the secondary purpose that primary one. It has distinguished between major and minor sports...
...token of the new uneasiness, the British invited another significant guest to Malaya: General Phao Sriyanondh, the silver-haired police chief of Thailand. The British gave General Phao a helicopter tour of the defenses, and persuaded him to help work out a "general pattern of operations" on the narrow Kra Isthmus, north of the Malaya-Thailand border. The British have evidence that the Communists are training new jungle forces in a safe redoubt across the Thai border. "We will have to be more careful about our future," agreed Thailand's tough General Phao...
...appreciatively at a gift from Agricultural Minister Heinrich Lübke (whose face turned red last year when Wine Lover Adenauer could not tell France's lactophilous Premier Pierre Mendes-France how much milk cost in Germany). Lübke's present: a bottle of milk, a token unlikely to wean the Chancellor from the grape...
Within minutes after the first alarm flashes into a central control headquarters of the U.S. Tactical Air Force, strike squadrons will be ready for almost immediate departure. They will be mostly based in the U.S., with only token forces (which, in the atomic age, can still pack an awful wallop) scattered around the world. The tactical squadrons will bear little resemblance to the one-purpose units of the past. Each will consist of 30 or more bombers, fighter-bombers, airborne tankers, cargo planes and communications aircraft. These will be welded in teams that can perform any tactical mission...
With none of his old flair for publicity, Good Communist Rivera quietly prepared to pack off the finished canvas as a token of his zeal to "a certain country." Though Rivera refused to be more specific, he did not deny that the certain country was the Soviet Union...