Word: tokening
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...Moslem empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their own grand master treacherously handed the island to Napoleon. The English, who soon captured it from the French, never allowed the knights...
...majority of editors, great & small, share the faculty of seeing stories where few others can see them, sometimes in apparently inconsequential people and events. By the same token; most editors are amazed when anyone suggests that they themselves might make good stories...
...fifth afternoon a lookout on the minesweeper U.S.S. Token spotted Gus Frazer, unconscious, sitting upright in the boat, his hand still near the tiller. Sammy, still alive, died half an hour after his rescue. His parents' bodies were still in the boat...
...this inadequate information, our armies, were wide open for the massive Chinese counter-thrust that rolled them back below the thirty-eighth parallel. General MacArthur suddenly revised his estimate of the Chinese forces upward from sixty to two hundred thousand troops and admitted his hopes of facing only a token volunteer force of Chinese were shattered. This revelation that his estimate of enemy force was based on hope and publicly announced Chinese policy spotlights the failure of his military intelligence service. And the man responsible for this failure, General Willoughby, cannot explain it away merely by exploding against his critics...
...negotiators' bugaboo -a "de facto cease-fire"-would be avoided. But the effect might well be the same. Since the Eighth Army would prefer not to spend blood for territory that might later have to be given up, the U.N. would probably reduce its ground activity to token fighting, designed to hold its positions and keep down casualties. Either side, legally, could launch an offensive if it suited its purpose...