Word: tokenized
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...requests for enlistments in the forces with alacrity. Try flashing a few bills in a girl's face. Doesn't she dash like mad to the closest half-decent dress shop? (Or are Madame's skirts being rationed to an unholy degree?) By the same token, the prospect of wearing a bright new uniform at no cost, or at a moderate fee to one's self, looms nicely in a girl's mind...
...outlook is indeed dark for all minorities when the rights granted them in the Atlantic Charter are now being destroyed in a token suppression in vital India. The situation becomes grave when the realization that this selfsame "old order" element at work in London clubs and chambers will yield perhaps the most important single influence at the conferences that will determine the new order...
...been expected to make a stand at Hellfire Pass, on the Libyan border. In a desert dawn, last week, some 30 New Zealanders, whooping and firing, scaled the high escarpment that blocks the route west. An Italian force of several hundred men surrendered after a quarter-hour of token resistance. They were bitter at their German allies. Where was Marshal Rommel? That was what the Italians wanted to know. When they saw him next. . . . They drew their hands across their throats...
...Sardinia or Sicily by air, were commanded by the invaders. General Alfonse Pierre Juin, Vichy's military commander in North Africa, reported to Vichy that gunfire was nearing the town, but there was no detailed evidence that his native troops and French officers put up more than a token resistance. At 7 p.m. on Sunday, 16 hours after the U.S. troops landed, he and Admiral Darlan agreed to surrender Algiers. Over the docks, the flames and smoke were still rising...
...song and a bit of a story." Last week, typically, the song was The Biggest Aspidistra in the World and the story about cockney Bill who was blown out of a window by a bomb, came to, remarked "Crikey! I got outa there just in time." For this token program Gracie receives a handsome $2,500 a week (from Pall Mall cigarets...