Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla war where there are no front lines and no decisive battles." Later, Azzam suggested setting up a small token Jewish state, like Vatican City, to serve as a symbol of unity for Jews. "Anything that is good for 500 million Catholics,"* said Azzam, "would be good enough for 12 million Jews...
...road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question in the minds of Arabs and Jews and even in the chancelleries of considerably greater states was: How far would Abdullah's Legion...
...evidence had been gathered and presented is an encouraging sign of faculty confidence in and co-operation with the Council. In the same way, the fact that the Facnity acted on the attendance question soon after the first expressions of student opinion on the subject is a progressive token...
...line of Catholic war veterans appeared at the Chukotka's pier, began picketing her on grounds that her cargo could be used against the U.S. in time of war. Longshoremen decided to join the protest, held a token strike for six hours. Within 24 hours the Chukotka case had made Page One of most newspapers, was being hotly discussed in Congress...
...getting themselves elected as "independents" staged a hunger strike in the gold-&-cream Assembly hall. Cunning officials placed trays of tea, cakes and dumplings before them, to no avail. The "irregulars'" spokesman bought a white coffin with black stripes, threatened to bring it into the Assembly as a token of protest...