Word: tokenized
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Even this mild show of fight had a perceptible effect: the odds in Congress suddenly rose that Ike's defense budget would suffer little more than half a billion token cut because few Congressmen were hardy enough to challenge the Eisenhower last word on national security. Also many a Democrat was suddenly made aware that he might have to answer to constituents in 1958 for cutting the kind of domestic programs that had long been the principal Democratic stock in trade...
Smith's decree was flatly rejected by the New York Times, which has only token circulation in Britain. Another U.S. newspaper distributed in Britain was expected to agree not to run any stories on British criminal cases without first clearing the copy with Smith's. Other U.S. publications were more likely to accept in Britain, as they do at home, responsibility for the accuracy and legality of what they print and, in effect, provide a person to be sued in British courts. This, plus a promise to indemnify distributors against damages, could leave the distributors free to distribute...
America, then, must continue to balance political necessity with military strategy. Britain, unable financially to sustain superfluous troops in Western Europe, cannot afford this luxury. But, in the course of the current meeting of the NATO Council, Continental nations should be made to realize that nothing more than token service can now be paid to the outdated concept of deterrence through the use of conventional military forces...
...battle was on, characterized by head-bumping, clothes-ripping, hair-pulling and name-calling, with the entire cast pitching in until the cops arrived. Yma's dark glasses fell off in the struggle, disclosing a black eye that had been presented earlier by her husband as a token of his esteem. Wailed Vivanco in court at week's end: "I and the members of my household are in fear of our lives...
...turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make Ida's death moving without being sentimental, and Roger's reconciliation with Louisa fitting and proper...