Word: token
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Customers want lure, and the little boites are adding token chorus lines, the big spots sultrier ones. Even more, customers want laughs: the comics are the town's brightest notes and biggest draws. (Most ubiquitous gag: "My mother-in-law is the Gestapo in bloomers...
...traditional War Department policy of segregation has done nothing except further divide the Negro soldier from his white comrade-in-arms; it has divided the races spiritually as well as physically. Although only a token in its beginnings, the mixed regiment would offset the danger to national morale and unity inherent in segregation methods. Moreover, the organization of such a unit would have significant and heartening effect upon the morale of hundreds of millions of allies in China, India, and Africa who would find in it a concrete instance of the democratic ideal for which we fight...
King George VI announced that a sword of honor was being struck for presentation to the "warrior city" of Stalingrad as a "token of the admiration not only of the British people but of the whole civilized world...
...time for the U.S. to demand permanent title to Atlantic bases obtained on a 99-year lease from Britain in exchange for 50 old destroyers. It astounded him, he added, that the Government had not long since asked for possession in fee simple of these bases, as a token of appreciation for what the U.S. has given Britain under Lend-Lease...
...spirit of wonder and adventure, the token of immortality, will be given to you as a child. May you keep it forever, with that in your heart which always seeks the gold beyond the rainbow, the pastures beyond the desert, the dawn beyond the sea, the light beyond the dark...