Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Germans poured into Greece 42 months ago to speed up Italy's backstabbing, stalemated attack, it did not take them long. The Nazis overwhelmed the tired Greeks and Britain's courageous token army in less than a month. Then Greece was just another conquered country. Last week, except for a few stragglers, the Nazi conquerors had packed up and run. The British moved in on their heels, with the aid of Greek patriots reached the Yugoslav frontier in 38 days...
...Bonins, turned on a flurry of attack, bombed new U.S. airfields on Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas. But this preventive did not prevent another scare: three days later the U.S. reconnaissance planes were back over Tokyo. The Japs, who had been panicked by Jimmy Doolittle's token raid in 1942, were in a dither again, even before the first B-29 raid on Tokyo had been staged...
...look like a highway to business success. The Future Farmers of America, meeting in their Kansas City convention this week, gave young Ellison the title of "Star Farmer of America" and $500 prize money. For Farmer Ellison, recently inducted into the Army, this prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid off his debt with his first crop...
...suggestion that every Christmas box sent to a U.S. serviceman overseas should include a small gift for a child, the Living Church last week observed: "This Christmas . . . American servicemen will be scattered all over the world. . . . Almost everywhere there will be children, ragged, undernourished, embittered. What better token of the joy of the Incarnation could be found than a children's Christmas all over the world...
...modestly insists that the high scores are due to superb Navy tactics and skill. The Navy thinks differently. Navy brass hats long ago ran out of glowing phrases (say they: "Roy Grumman is the hottest thing in aviation today") and E flags for Grumman. Last week, as a new token of their esteem, the Navy was reportedly seeking permission to give him a medal, the Meritorious Civilian Service award, something no U.S. manufacturer has yet received. The medal was as much for Grumman's amazing production record as for his superb planes...