Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven years, no Negro followed Autherine Lucy to the University of Alabama. One by one, the states of the South submitted to at least token school integration-until Alabama stood as the only state in the nation without a single Negro attending a state-supported school with white students...
...said, "but law alone cannot make men see right. We are confronted primarily with a moral issue ... a moral crisis as a country and a people. It cannot be met by repressive police action. It cannot be left to increased demonstrations in the streets. It cannot be quieted by token moves or talk. It is a time to act in the Congress, in your state and local legislative body, and, above all, in all of our daily lives...
...well to MLF, whose 20 to 25 ships are expected to cost $5 billion over a ten-year period. Thanks to Washington's success in selling MLF to Germany and then to Italy, it seemed at first as if the fleet might be built with only a token contribution from Britain...
...Solal remains his own man, and aside from Reinhardt, he is the only European who has originated a strong and personal jazz style. French critics praise him most for not imitating Americans, and, as a token of respect, his French clique calls him "Mister Solal," subtly proclaiming him the equal of the greatly admired American expatriates...
...Angolan nationalists. The war is a grievous burden for tiny Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans even token self-government without imperiling his own 31-year reign in Lisbon. Despite the steady rise in the guerrillas' strength and effectiveness, Salazar's best hope of victory lies in the bitter enmity between the two nationalist movements that are struggling to win Angola's independence...