Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every dollar dey got! I'll turn da jernt inta a bowlin' alley!"). But the conspiratorial gleam which accompanies Jimmy's every imprecation ("Surrounded by assassins!") is a token of the vast human warmth he pours into giving pleasure and derives from having it received ("I know dere's a million good-lookin' guys, but I'm a novelty...
...felt that at last it was about to give the nation's grocers and housewives something really & truly simple. Date of the gift is Feb. 27, but last week, well in advance, OPA was proudly explaining about its new change-making food tokens. The fiber tokens (see cut) will be red for meats and fats, blue for processed foods. Each token will be worth one ration point. All red and blue food stamps will be worth ten points, no matter what the figures already printed on them. Stamps will remain valid for twelve weeks instead of the current four...
...music. The graduation address will be delivered by Chaplain Abbott Peterson, Post Chaplain at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Chaplain Peterson is the first former student of the school to address an outgoing class. Chaplain Walter E. Reifsnyder, of the faculty, will pronounce the benediction at the close of the service. Token diplomas will be given to the 12 section leaders by Chaplain William A. Cleary, Commandant of the Chaplain School...
...break two plates-like this.' And I hit two plates with my fist. The plates broke all right, and my friend and the others present embraced me with enthusiasm. . . . 1 did not mind the scratch. ... It gave me an opportunity to say that my blood was merely a token-a little American blood on the Russian front...
A.A.F. Redistribution operates like a command, under the direct eye of General H. H. Arnold and Brigadier General James M. Bevans, the Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Personnel. As a token of its importance, Colonel Henry M. Bailey was assigned from the Air Staff to head the program...