Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while the token U.S. Air Force in China blasted at Japanese-held objectives, ground forces of the Chinese took two pearls of potentially great price. They pushed the enemy back through Chekiang Province and retook two of the finest military airdromes in China; one at Lishui, only 700 miles from the great naval base at Nagasaki; another at Chuhsien, only a few bomber steps farther. China knew what could be done to Japan from there...
...when sacrificial blood is flowing freely and uncomplainingly in so many other quarters and when shipping is important enough to decide a nation's fate, it is sickening indeed to realize the treacherous apathy that is allowed to exist among a class of workmen who, by the very token of their skill, have so much to offer, positively and directly, to the cause of freedom...
...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...