Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph Lowell, president of WHGB, announced last Monday that his station had leased the land on Western Ave, from Harvard for a token annual fee of $1 per year and will start construction on its $1.2 million studio building within a year...
...newspaper competition has all but disappeared. It survives in only 60 of the country's 5,911 cities?and in two-thirds of these the competition is token, i.e., between morning and afternoon papers...
...Southern states that have avoided even token compliance with the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision, none has thundered "never" louder than Mississippi. Last week Mississippi's "never" turned to "soon." The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Negro James Meredith, 29, admitted to the University of Mississippi...
Hughes insists that his is not merely a "token candidacy", but he has made every effort to bring the issues of disarmament and peace before the publiv...
McLaughlin, tired and bitterly disappointed, conceded the election after the second ballot. He was about 100 votes behind Peabody. McLaughlin is not expected to enter the Democratic primary, and Peabody will thus face only token opposition from State Registrar Clement A. Riley who trailed far behind in yesterday's voting...