Word: tokenized
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...After the war, in token that he had been forgiven for the Finnish fiasco, Zhdanov was made head of the Finnish Control Commission. Finns expected the worst, but Zhdanov is too hardheaded to bear a grudge. At Helsinki's airport a glum honor guard of Finns was lined up to meet him. Said Zhdanov in Finnish, "Hyvää päivää pojat" (Hello, boys). The soldiers stood stonily for a long Finnish moment, then grinned back and said, almost in chorus: "Hyvää päivää Kenraali" (Hello, General...
...72nd birthday party, Winston Churchill's 60-lb. cake in token of his catholicity of taste in headgear, wore 32 assorted little hats. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, drew a distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps...
...deeply distressed as we identified our dead preparatory to writing letters of condolence to the next of kin. When the Catholic chaplain found one of his men, he performed a little rite that demonstrated his concern to the bystanders. He did something that satisfied their need for a token signifying their common distress. But when I found a Protestant boy, I could only gently cover his form again, while the spectators stood by in a silence heavy with disappointment...
...bulk comperising the undergraduate population have always been half-hearted, but in the past, Harvardmen have had enough leisure moments to work out a hit or miss social schedule of their own that could carry them through four years in Cambridge. Organized recreation now chiefly consists of a few token record dances and an annual class smoker...
Parties and informal entertainments were sharply curtailed due to the inflation and Yale Game pinch. Some enterprising individuals in the river Houses managed to furnish enough watered Scotch and sherry for token Thanksgiving celebration...