Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooks it was a running battle against scattered showers as the Cooney crowd offered but token opposition, taking up every half-inning with pop-fly drills and slowing the proceedings to a dusky finish at 5:03 p.m., or two minutes before the sun was scheduled to set. Nevertheless, the sun had little or nothing to do with the happenings...
Because Murray has exercised his power with some wisdom and restraint, the big companies have not been unhappy. But the small companies were. Many complained that union negotiators never came near them, or when they did, carried on only token bargaining; they all had to do what Big Steel did. The union answered that it was a waste of time bargaining with anyone but the industry's handful of top firms, who set the pattern for all. Big & little firms, they were all in the same labor market...
Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...
...person in the United States," he argued, "need fear our laws against burglary unless he is a burglar or is getting ready to commit burglary. By the same token, no state need fear this treaty unless it is planning an aggressive act or has aggressive designs in its heart...
Beyond the budget (except for some token down payments) are items to get Harry Truman's welfare-state program under way and also for the full cost of such projects as the St. Lawrence Seaway ($600 million to $1 billion). Items...