Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army is developing a class structure in which only the well-to-do can lead, and a mass of potential manpower, 84 per cent of selected, are being assigned to the ranks for lack of an education they cannot afford. Congress' five million dollar appropriation is only a token of the all-preserving federal subsidy needed for victory...
...blackout must be maintained at night and a Japanese flag hoisted each day on every house as "a token of obedience to the Japanese Empire...
...more than coincidence, on the 166th anniversary of Independence the U.S. had struck its first blow at Nazi-occupied western Europe. In truth it was a token raid of things to come, but a token with a sting. The raiders bombed three Dutch airdromes in all, at Haamstede, Valkenburg and Alkmaar, damaging grounded planes, hangars, other installations...
...explanation came out of Chungking. The "air units" were merely ground crews, technicians, front men. They were a token of planes to come, but on the Chekiang-Kiangsi front, where the situation was desperate, the time for planes...
German fighters were back in France in force. For once R.A.F. pilots were glad to see them. Eight RA.F. fighters were shot down (and nine German), but the price was low. More important was the fact that the Germans, after weeks of token fighter resistance, now had plenty of pursuit in the air. To the R.A.F. that meant that the blitz was beginning to help their Rus-sian ally as well as hurting their German enemy in his industrial and military establishments. They were sure that some of the fighters they met over France came from Russia. They were also...