Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach the Roman Catholic religion, which is unacceptable to me, a Presbyterian. I hold no resentment toward the members of that church. Nevertheless, I do not want one cent of my tax money to be used for the teaching or advancement of their religion. By the same token, I do not expect them to pay one cent of tax money toward the support of, or the teaching by, my church...
...public urinals, known as vespasiann (after Emperor Vespasian. A.D. 9-79. who established a tax on such establishments, and when criticized for his source of revenue, replied: "Money has no smell."). In an earlier day. the vespasiennes were a mark of social progress for a neighborhood and a token of masculine democracy. They have also become a quaint sight for tourists and a source of endless jokes. Last week, as the Paris municipal council debated their continuance, the pissoirs got an eloquent defense from Councilor Rene Fayssat...
...HAVEN BANKRUPTCY was recommended for the deficit-ridden railroad by an ICC examiner and a committee of prominent New England businessmen. The examiner said the road's commuter lines should be run by state agencies, leaving it with only freight business and token passenger service...
...press and assembly," Dictator Rafael Trujillo has spared no effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal threats and public incitement against the church, the Dominican bishops informed Trujillo that they wished "to continue cooperating." As a token of capitulation, the dictator demanded the title "Benefactor of the Church," a distinction last conferred on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...
...Orleans had been left alone, token racial integration ordered for two of the city's elementary schools would have proceeded last year with a minimum of disorder. But in Baton Rouge, cowboy-songster Governor Jimmie H. Davis cranked the Louisiana legislature into paroxysms of racist sentiment, and it spewed out masses of bills aimed at grabbing control of the city's whole school system and cutting off pay to teachers at the integrated schools. The Federal District Court fought back with armloads of restraining orders, finally enjoined some 700 state officials, including the Governor and the entire legislature...