Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...
Give It Back to the Bahstads. Within a few minutes the Amethyst's captain was mortally wounded; the ship's doctor and pharmacist's mate were dead. Another hit demolished a rear turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine...
...meaning at all. Too many manage to do just about what the C-plus man did, term after term in course after course, for this case to be thrown off as a fluke. Although these people are enrolled in the course at hand, and ordinarily have performed some token act of preparation for the examination, there are no basic differences between the stories they tell and the story of the student who got the C-plus. They, too, get grades completely out of proportion to their knowledge or understanding of a course's material. They, too, get away with "shooting...
Members of the class attending graduate schools or getting a start in business will be asked only to give "token" amounts...
...token that they do not recognize partition between Northern Ireland and Eire, the Irish dropped their country's Gaelic name...