Word: tokening
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...modeling dresses for a full-figure salon called the Hefty Hideaway and causing a rumpus by insisting that black teenagers be allowed to dance along with whites on Corny's show. Till now African-Americans have been offered only a once-a-month "Negro Day," totally segregated - a token for the "Soul Train...
...Harvard, Rudenstine was well-known for increasing the university’s endowment. That’s it. His presence at the freshman barbecue in the fall of 2000 served only to highlight his complete absence from campus life throughout the rest of that year. He merely made token appearances at home football games; whether he stayed past half-time—or even arrived before it— is anyone’s guess. Even during the Living Wage sit-in, at a time when his comments would have clarified and enriched the debate over Harvard?...
...arrived at page eight, containing the gross misinterpretation of Bradstreet, and was appalled but not surprised. After all, it seems to me that Harvard has long been more concerned with getting a (token) female voice at the table (or on the gate) and less concerned about hearing it all the way out. I’m not sure whether Anne Bradstreet’s misconstrued words exemplify sheer ignorance or willful revisionism, but in either case, her words remain. They are there to greet 1,600 new Harvard students, and they are there to remind us that Harvard...
...Bush] here and set him up. I did the best I could do." If Bush wins a second term, only the imminence of a major diplomatic victory--in the Middle East, for example--could induce him to stay a short while longer. By the same token, the aide stresses that Powell is determined to serve out the entire term--even if the U.S. launches an invasion of Iraq, which Powell has fought to delay or derail...
...cousin or a friend's father had to act as an understudy, and then regretted it the second the event started. One of Hilary's favorite parts about Christmas was her father's ineptitude with gifts. Ginny was in charge of the present buying, but George usually made a token purchase of his own. One Christmas he surprised Ginny with an electric pencil sharpener. "They were always so clearly the wrong thing, but it was just so funny that he'd taken the time and thought to buy them," says Hilary, who one year received a stuffed dolphin with...