Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, only a few token T-formation plays have been grafted into the single-wing trunk. Jim Kenary; last year's passing whiz, who hasn't thrown from the T yet, was shifted from quarter-back to tallback earlier this week...
...football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
Hiroshima observed the third anniversary of its atomic bomb last week. In token of peace, doves fluttered, bells tolled and a poet was reciting an ode,when a squadron of R.A.F. Mustang fighters thundered overhead, drowning out his voice...
...Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which had to take off by dropping 1,000 feet over a precipice...
When the sheikh put his share in the lands up for auction, Gulf Oil Corp. and Shell Union Oil Corp. made token bids, and Independent walked off with the prize. One oilman said simply: "The whole industry stood on the sidelines and cheered." For Independent is an important face-saver-token "proof" that the U.S. does not maintain its strategic Middle East beachhead for the sole benefit of the companies that dominate the U.S. oil industry...