Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearly, the following fact. A gangster (the Soviet Union) does not cease his bloody activities because society frowns upon his activities - the extension and preservation of Communism through deceit, treachery, and barbarity when necessary. Since society employs armed policemen to protect itself from gangsters, by the same token a nation should use minimal adequate force to protect itself from international gangsters...
Last week the moral siege of Atlanta (pop. 487,455) ended in spectacular fashion with the smoothest token school integration ever seen in the Deep South. Into four high schools marched nine Negro students without so much as a white catcall. Teachers were soon reporting "no hostility, no demonstrations, the most normal day we've ever had." In the lunchrooms, white children began introducing themselves to Negro children. At Northside High, a biology class was duly impressed when Donita Gaines, a Negro, was the only student able to define the difference between anatomy and physiology. Said she crisply: "Physiology...
...deal that enabled the sponsors of a Queens housing project to make a windfall profit of $2,400,000. Understandably pained, Democrat Levitt accused Wagner of issuing a "vile, vicious slander." The mayor, he cried, was "unfit to hold public office." As for Republican Lefkowitz, who faces only token opposition in his party primary, he spent most of the week vacationing in Saratoga...
Madsen and his study team recommended that Mexican-Americans be charged a token payment for each treatment, and get a receipt for it. because they will refuse free treatment as a despised form of charity. Finally, the curanderos should be enlisted as health aides. They can be given short courses to qualify as practical nurses, suggested Madsen. and allowed to wear uniforms or badges, and to dispense simple medicines. They should serve as go-betweens for doctors and nurses and Mexican-American patients. Then, at last, they will bring their patients to clinics and hospitals, where they can get modern...
...poem's most common syllabic pattern is a word of one short followed by two long syllables appearing at the end of a line, in 6,344 lines or 40.42% of the total lines. Sample: 'Απολλων'(Apollo). By the same token, this kind of word never once appears at mid-point in a line. Such evidence of stylistic consistency goes far to disprove the 19th century theory that many men wrote the Iliad. Scholars can still debate whether or not the author was Homer, but Computer Classicist McDonough hopes to solve...