Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this just a bluff? U Thant spent two days urging Nikita to make at least a token payment, but emerged emptyhanded. "I did not get the impression that the Soviet Union is prepared to change its policy in this matter," he told a press conference in Moscow. The mild-mannered little Burmese-often criticized for excessive flexibility-could have left it at that. But to everyone's astonishment, the Secretary-General took his case straight to the Russian people...
Boston is also the only major city that has refused to take advantage of President Kennedy's Emergency Food Distribution Program. Under this plan needy persons receive assistance from the Government with only a token payment. With the refusal of local authorities to cooperate with either program "kids get it in the neck twice," Mayer said. But Mayer claimed that both programs could be set up effectively within a few months. "I see no reason," he said, "why Boston school-children couldn't have some kind of lunch program by September...
Rahman accepted this withdrawal as a token, even though several hundred more guerrillas remained behind in northern Borneo, and the Tokyo talks got under way-but not for long. Macapagal proposed a four-nation Afro-Asian conciliation commission to mediate the dispute. Fine, said Sukarno playfully. How about Red China as one of the mediating powers? He did not insist on that condition, and Rahman was ready to accept mediation, provided the Indonesian guerrillas were called off. This Sukarno refused. In the end, the three leaders could only agree to turn over Macapagal's proposal to their subordinates. After...
...Berlin and Murphy, who was serving as civilian political adviser to Military Governor Lucius Clay, was summoned with his boss to Washington to discuss the blockade. It consisted at that time of a wooden pole suspended across the highway at Helmstedt-and removable, Murphy was convinced, by a token show of force. The decision to launch the Berlin airlift seemed to him a serious mistake. The dramatic success of the airlift obscured the reality: that the U.S. had meekly surrendered its claims for "surface-level access." He did not resign, but he adds that he would feel better today about...
...tabloid managed to avert death only by desperate expedients. At the end, more than half the Reporter's staff was still unsalaried and subsisting entirely on meager strike benefits: up to $79 a week. Even its offset press was leased for a token $10 a year from the benevolent International Typographical Union...