Word: tokenized
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...token raid. Though Aruba and Curaçao are flyspecks on the map, their refineries are two of the largest in the world. Only last week the State Department announced that U.S. troops had been sent to garrison the islands at the invitation of The Netherlands Government...
Spats & Monocles. But, for the Countess, the deathbed atmosphere of Rumania was best typified by the "Old Excellencies." There were two of these strange creatures in the lobby of the Athene Palace, "a kind of token force of a large army of some 700 living Rumanian former cabinet ministers, and of innumerable diplomats and generals." Wearing white linen spats and monocles, they sat at their table in the lobby from noon until midnight, studying "women's points." One Old Excellency had "the face of a sick greyhound." The other, "grey-haired and heavy-eyed," had a pointed beard like...
...already been established that in building the heavy bombers-with which air power strikes-the U.S. is far & away ahead of the rest of the world. Token proofs are the Flying Fortresses now in Europe; a bigger token, the handful of Flying Fortresses in The Netherlands East Indies, which slashed with grim effectiveness at Japanese naval units, fought off Jap fighter planes, ranged far & wide through the South China Seas-on missions which cannot yet be fully described in print...
There will be more than token proof. U.S. production today is heavily weighted with four-motored bombers-Flying For tresses and swift Consolidated B-24s. In the 185,000-plane goal for 1942-43 set by President Roosevelt there will be a greater proportion of heavy bombers-more heavy bombers than any nation ever built before...
...shipment of 8,000 tons of grain which the Allies plan to send to their stricken ally is just a token. In Greece, as elsewhere in Occupied Europe, no one can be sure that relief supplies will not be grabbed by the Axis. Explained Mr. Dalton bitterly: "There is no guarantee, nor would we pay any attention to one given by the Germans. We are in this case running a risk in view of the appalling conditions caused by the Germans in Greece...