Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music. Even Berlin caught it, not once but twice on successive nights, not token-wise but in two crashing raids. For the first time in more than 14 months (except for several light raids by Russian bombers) Allied aircraft wheeled in "strong force" (meaning hundreds) over the camouflaged symbol of the Reich's indestructibility...
Predictions, 1942. Many a forecast for 1942 turned out poorly. Columnist Raymond Clapper thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry...
...requests for enlistments in the forces with alacrity. Try flashing a few bills in a girl's face. Doesn't she dash like mad to the closest half-decent dress shop? (Or are Madame's skirts being rationed to an unholy degree?) By the same token, the prospect of wearing a bright new uniform at no cost, or at a moderate fee to one's self, looms nicely in a girl's mind...
...outlook is indeed dark for all minorities when the rights granted them in the Atlantic Charter are now being destroyed in a token suppression in vital India. The situation becomes grave when the realization that this selfsame "old order" element at work in London clubs and chambers will yield perhaps the most important single influence at the conferences that will determine the new order...
...been expected to make a stand at Hellfire Pass, on the Libyan border. In a desert dawn, last week, some 30 New Zealanders, whooping and firing, scaled the high escarpment that blocks the route west. An Italian force of several hundred men surrendered after a quarter-hour of token resistance. They were bitter at their German allies. Where was Marshal Rommel? That was what the Italians wanted to know. When they saw him next. . . . They drew their hands across their throats...