Word: tokening
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Meek little Jimmy Alcock, 54, was always a man to avoid trouble. But trouble sought him out at the Lancashire aircraft works, where he was a $25-a-week semiskilled laborer. When Britain's engineering (i.e., machinists') unions called a nationwide one-day "token" strike, Jimmy wondered what to do. He did not be long to the engineering union, and his own General and Municipal Workers union was not involved in the strike. He asked his union what to do. He was told to go to work as usual, and Jimmy did. He was the only...
Willie Farrell was not the only union man to incur the displeasure of his fellow workers. Sixteen members of the confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions who, for one reason or another, had refused to observe a nationwide one-day "token strike" were sentenced to social ostracism in their own plants. At Derbyshire's Staveley Iron Works, Worker Ron Hewitt was forced to take his meals alone. For the next six months, Ron's 300 co-workers will not even give him a "good morning" when he comes to work. Their only communication with him during his five...
...arise from circumstances over which the individual has little control. To be effective, such a system must be completely removed from the insecurity of legislative machination, and its benefits must be sizable. Stripped of the stabilizing fund, linked to the yearly whims of Congressional budget makers, and providing only token benefits, the system proposed by the Chamber of Commerce is worthless...
...Token from the Master. The star of the show was Rosenberg's old friend and exact contemporary, Picasso (they were both born in 1881). The 43 Picassos on view included such masterpieces as Woman with Mandolin, Harlequin and Open Window, plus nine superb drawings. Among them: a sketch of sharp-eyed, sensitive-faced Paul Rosenberg, done in 1921 as a token of friendship...
...from Greek presbyteros, comparative of presbys, old). It would seem to mean "of or pertaining to the elders." Thus any old people's home, of whatever religion, becomes by definition a presbyterian (though not, Mr. Wolfe, a Presbyterian) establishment; and the Elders of Zion have, by the same token, as good a right to the adjective as the Kirk of Scotland. Similarly, after rooting for the origins of the word church (from Greek kyriake, kyriakon, the Lord's house, from kyriakos, concerning a master or lord, from kyrios, master), we might forgivably maintain that the British House...