Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Year VII. In the person of Chiang Kaishek, China sat at Cairo as one of the world's big powers-a tribute to her resistance, a token of her coming place. Her armies and her people suffered, hoped, retreated, resisted, hung...
...tenth day of the battle, U.S. Liberators swooped down towards the Yellow River valley, dropped three tons of explosives on two bridges. But few cheers came from the grimy Chinese soldiers, pounded for ten days by Japanese aircraft; this token was too little, too late...
...token of his good will, Mr. Hull said he would seek participation of Congress, on a bi-partisan basis, in the formulation of policy at the proper time...
...break were Negroes getting in the Armed Services? Republicans heard of many a Negro serviceman returning in anger to Harlem, there to spread dissatisfaction. Often the returned Negro soldier was angry at segregation in Army camps, at the Navy's unabashed racial snobbishness, at the Negro's "token" representation on the fighting fronts. The Negroes who helped elect a Republican Governor last November in Kentucky, and now had voted Republican in Harlem, had taken their protests to the polls...
...Arab hospitality and their delight in plain conversation made it difficult to get the interview over with quickly. One pollster got away from his client only after absorbing quantities of black coffee and lemonade and promising to accept one of the family's prize black kittens as a token of affection...