Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch can contribute little. Their navy was virtually destroyed three years ago. The French, concerned with Indo-China, nevertheless can send little more than a token force...
...front-line criticism was impressively dismissed by fighting commanders, including Eisenhower and Patton, as a gripe. It was not until recently that field commanders decided the front-line men might be right and asked-but too late-for the T-26. There would not even be a token force of Pershings on hand now if Ordnance had not started building them more than a year...
...movie is incomplete without the gently savage cartoons, by the same token the cartoons are incomplete without the affectionately explanatory movie. Many liberals and leftists are going to feel that Blimp has been whitewashed into a Dear Old Boy-as indeed he has; but David Low himself, who advised on the characterization and makeup, is well satisfied. Says he: "Blimp is a symbol of stupidity and stupid people are not necessarily hateful. In fact, some stupid people are quite nice...
...mission headed by Washington's wispy Lauchlin Currie and London's Dingle Foot. The Swiss, who three years ago were squeezed by the top-dog Nazis, now had to bend their neutrality to a squeeze from the opposite side: they agreed 1) to cut off all except token shipments of important civilian goods between Germany and northern Italy; 2) to switch all the electric current they export from Germany to France; 3) to impound all German-owned bank balances and help the Allies track down all German-owned securities, etc. which have gone into hiding in Switzerland. This...
Walking in his socks while his" mustachios curled magnificently skyward, the Maharaja carried a takri (basket) of earth from the site of the shrine. While thousands of his subjects chanted: "Sat Sri Akal!" ("Truth is eternal!"), the Prince bore his burden on his turbaned head in token of his total humility...