Word: tokenized
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...soldiers knew that gamblers' passes had won wars. In Britain some 2,000,000 British soldiers (including about 200,000 Canadians) were ready for action. More than a token force of U.S. fighting men was on hand. And Britain's R.A.F., still had at least a qualified command of the air over the Channel...
...soldiers, were foolish enough to think that in two weeks of operation Chennault had broken the aerial back of the Jap. The force was too small, the pace too heavy, and the Jap was busy about many things. The China Air Force had given the world only a token of what air power could do in China. Newcomer Haynes told newspapermen what many an oldtime China pilot already knew: with more bombers, more fighters, the Jap could be pushed back into...
Probable carriers of these token shipments were lone ships which could steam some 16,000 miles around Cape Horn without refueling. Stealing secretly out of guarded ports, with radios silenced, a few such hermit ships had a fair chance of avoiding U.S. or British trade-route patrols. But what they carried around Cape Horn could only be a trickle. Declared the Ministry of Economic Warfare: "Many battlefields remain to be fought on before Germany and Japan can be said to be in contact with one another...
...Army is developing a class structure in which only the well-to-do can lead, and a mass of potential manpower, 84 per cent of selected, are being assigned to the ranks for lack of an education they cannot afford. Congress' five million dollar appropriation is only a token of the all-preserving federal subsidy needed for victory...
...blackout must be maintained at night and a Japanese flag hoisted each day on every house as "a token of obedience to the Japanese Empire...