Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some time Butch had been skimping his Mayoralty to work at the Office of Civilian Defense. By the same token he was skimping OCD. Even Mr. Roosevelt, according to a persistent report, shared this view, but could think of no painless way of easing LaGuardia out. Meantime hen-shaped Fiorello continued to fly back & forth between Washington and New York, always a little out of breath and red in the face. At a ceremony marking the start of his third Mayoralty term, he flapped his wet wings and exploded with bantam wrath...
...Reports from Ottawa said that Canada would cancel Britain's war materials debt, more than $1,000,000,000, as a token of unity...
...destiny of our country. . . . My request is that you consider the merits of a young American youth of goodly heritage-Colin P. Kelly, III-for appointment as a Cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point. I make this appeal in behalf of this youth as a token of the Nation's appreciation of the heroic services of his father, who met death in line of duty at the very outset of the struggle which was thrust upon us by the perfidy of a professed friend...
...entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients are fully, and in a few cases fulsomely, represented; contemporary poets receive mostly only token representation. People who tend to bloat when reading classic pieces can get relief, in The Viking Book, from its citation of one of the best literary carminatives ever written (taken from Boswell's Life of Johnson...
...companies were in a box. When the State Department signed the deal (providing a $9,000,000 "token payment" by Mexico, other compensation to be determined if possible by one U.S. and one Mexican appraiser) it left them no effective out. They could hardly appeal again to the State Department. Said one oilman: "We'd be like a woman raped by a policeman calling...