Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEGREGATED FACULTIES. Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have only token integration, while teaching staffs in Louisiana and Mississippi are completely segregated. Howe suggested that Southern school officials might assign one white teacher to every all-Negro faculty and vice versa-or risk losing federal...
...eared topics of the day. The evening's menu of fashionable clichés includes: Generations-in conflict. The Young-Jacobins in blue jeans looking for any old Bastille to storm. The Negro-visible and vocal, and there must be two or the producer will be accused of "token" integration. Middle-aged Mothers-so square they are cubes. The Homosexual-not really a bad chap...
...than it was before. The whole notion that the city can lift itself by its own bootstraps is a snare and a delusion." Thus cities have no recourse but to go hat in hand to the Federal Government, which has taken billions in taxes from them and returned only token sums...
...guard, dug in behind the four concentric walls surrounding the compound, held out for several hours; but by noon, downtown Accra was jammed with jubilant Ghanaians, dancing in the streets, cheering, singing, many of them wearing white handkerchiefs around their heads and white clay on their faces as a token of victory. "Fellow citizens," announced Colonel E. K. Kotoka, one of the coup leaders, in a broadcast over Radio Ghana, "I have come to inform you that the military, with the cooperation of the police, have taken over the government. The myth surrounding Nkrumah has been broken...
...rely on backing from Wall Street, and other friends, are pleased by the early response; they estimate a circulation of 5,000 or more at $1.50 a copy. A professor of sociology at Columbia University, Bell commissions most of the stories, for which the authors are paid a token $100; Kristol, executive vice president of Basic Books, does most of the editing. Their magazine, they hope, will re-create some of the atmosphere of 19th century England when intellectuals took a passionate interest in their government, and were not satisfied merely to carp contentiously from the sidelines...