Word: tokenized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heady victories, as were the wounds inflicted with impunity on the other superpower: the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, the 1998 destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. The limp and feckless American reaction to these acts of war--a token cruise missile here, a showy indictment there, empty threats everywhere--only reinforced the radical Islamic conviction that America was a paper tiger, fat and decadent, leader of a civilization grown weak and cowardly and ripe for defeat...
Speaking of snowballs: The most random track on the album is not the token traditional piece, “Christmas Canon,” performed by the ever-reliable Trans-Siberian Orchestra (and really, what’s Christmas without an orchestral suite by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra?), but rather “Snowball,” in which the versatile Jimmy Fallon imitates a bad high school garage band vocalist with his screams of, “Snowball snowball snowball fight...
...obviously miss Dan—he was a great scorer, a great leader to have on our team,” Harvard captain Andrew Gellert said. “By the same token, everybody’s a year older, more experienced, and we’ve got [senior center] Tim Coleman back. We’re playing well as a team, that’s what’s important. I don’t want to compare ourselves to last year...
Sarah E. Moss said she figured she’d been chosen as a token math/science concentrator. She then inadvertantly used the word “hypothesis” in the next sentence. Funny...
...this week's fighting been fierce, or have the Northern Alliance advanced towards the city with only token resistance...