Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket attacks were launched in the middle of the night against two U.S. airbases near Saigon, Bien Hoa and Phuoc Vinh. From Bien Hoa fly half the fighter-bomber strikes that originate in South Viet Nam, and the Viet Cong attack was undoubtedly a token riposte for U.S. bombing of MIG bases in the north. Some 125 rounds of the Russianmade rocket, 82-mm. mortar and 75-mm. recoilless-rifle fire raked Bien Hoa, killing six Americans and wounding 85. The 15-minute attack destroyed four planes and damaged 25, also damaged runways, barracks and equipment. Phuoc Vinh was attacked...
...Supreme Court declared that Southern schools should be desegregated with "deliberate speed." During the nine years that followed they weren't. Negro parents who wanted to send their children to previously all-white schools almost invariably met resistance from local school officials. Even token desegregation required long, laborious court suits...
...Players had the difficult task of living up to high dramatic and musical standards. Jim Paul conducting the entire show without a score, a token of the professionalism that permeated the production. Under his baton the pit orchestra and several notches above the usual for G&S at Agassiz. In spite of occasionally poor intonation and some floundering in more technical passages, Paul's musicians played with sensitivity and variety, giving Yeomen by far the most exciting theatre orchestra heard around here for along time. The chorus has been well-drilled by Vince Canzoneri, and they negotiated the tongue-twisting...
...earnest of his interest in hemispheric development, Johnson has asked Congress to adopt a resolution endorsing the common market. He has also requested a more tangible token-a pledge of $1.5 billion in aid over the next five years, in addition to the $1 billion-a-year that is already being given in aid under the Alliance for Progress. Increasingly sensitive to criticism that his Administration is preoccupied by the war, the President hopes to demonstrate at next week's conference that he is as deeply committed to social and economic progress in Latin America...
...past few years, the School Committee has demonstrated some enthusiasm at the prospect of aiding the city's Negro children. Sadly, it never has been sure enough of its own hopes--or its mandate--to appropriate the money and thought necessary to make its programs more than token efforts. The frustrating pattern repeats itself--and Boston's Negroes can quite justifiably wonder whether the Committee's loud pronouncements, even when backed by the State Board, are worth all the attention liberal whites give them...