Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abundance seems as remote as mythology's Isles of the Blest. For all his glowing promises to the consumer, living standards in Russia today are little higher than they were in 1958. Though some food prices have increased sharply since 1962, there has been only a token increase in wages. Housing, consumer goods, and several key sectors of heavy industry have fallen far short of even the reduced levels set for them last year...
...heading of journalistic enterprise. He simply slipped aboard the school bus bearing the first Negro students to try to enter Macon County High School. He figured he could photograph the story from the youngsters' point of view. But law authorities had already gathered in force to prevent the token integration, and some of them had been tipped that a photographer...
...gods--Hum I sounds like a disaster! Somehow the faculty has managed to combine all the worst features of Gen Ed courses without even a token inclusion of its virtues...
...present French contribution to NATO is token at best, and it is even more minuscule in SEATO-at the last military maneuvers in Southeast Asia, France was represented by a single observer. France refuses to take a seat in the Geneva disarmament talks and will not share the U.N.'s Congo costs. De Gaulle has been contemptuous of the U.N. since its birth, both because it has the common failing of all assemblies, which "beneath their fine speeches are ruled by the fear of action," and because its members are nations, "that is, the least impartial and the most...
Still, for every tortuous inch gained, there are miles of progress left to be covered. There remain 1,888 Southern school districts where segregation is the rule-and scores of other districts where desegregation sits uneasily in token form. Though Montgomery buses are technically integrated, the city's other public facilities still are not. Team sports are still carefully segregated in a large number of Southern institutions; the NBC television network recently canceled coverage of the annual Blue-Gray football game because Negroes are not eligible to participate. Only 22 states have enforceable fair-employment laws on the books...