Word: tokenized
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...more than coincidence, on the 166th anniversary of Independence the U.S. had struck its first blow at Nazi-occupied western Europe. In truth it was a token raid of things to come, but a token with a sting. The raiders bombed three Dutch airdromes in all, at Haamstede, Valkenburg and Alkmaar, damaging grounded planes, hangars, other installations...
...explanation came out of Chungking. The "air units" were merely ground crews, technicians, front men. They were a token of planes to come, but on the Chekiang-Kiangsi front, where the situation was desperate, the time for planes...
German fighters were back in France in force. For once R.A.F. pilots were glad to see them. Eight RA.F. fighters were shot down (and nine German), but the price was low. More important was the fact that the Germans, after weeks of token fighter resistance, now had plenty of pursuit in the air. To the R.A.F. that meant that the blitz was beginning to help their Rus-sian ally as well as hurting their German enemy in his industrial and military establishments. They were sure that some of the fighters they met over France came from Russia. They were also...
Conscription Now. Both Defense Minister James Layton Ralston and Navy Minister Angus MacDonald had declared publicly that they needed no conscripts to augment the flow of volunteers. But they and others led the Cabinet faction demanding immediate conscription, as a token to the eight English-speaking provinces that the Government accepted the popular mandate for conscription...
Exactly what the D. A. A. officials mean by the phrase is not clear, because they could send seven men down, token or no token, who could take 30 points with little trouble. Led by Sid Bull, second place winner in the IC4A two-mile run last winter, Bob Williams Don Burham, Uptegrove, and many more, all champions, bid fair to dominate the running events...