Word: tokenizes
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Then, on June 11, 1940, came the first air raid. It was little more than a token to show Malta that Benito Mussolini was now in the war. Maltese looked up from their stony little cotton, wheat and potato fields. Ironworkers, coppersmiths and lacemakers stuck their heads out of their shops for a glimpse of Mussolini's planes. From emplacements in Malta's limestone rock around the Grand Harbour and His Majesty's Dockyards, anti-aircraft guns boomed. A house front was damaged, a few civilians hurt, but most of the bombs fell...
...Lord Beaverbrook's son, R.A.F. Wing Commander Max Aitken, has said he believes the 177 has a 2,000-mile range with 1½-ton load. If so, it could probably fly the Atlantic with a half-ton load for token raids...
...Your Royal Highness, as a token of the admiration and friendship of the American people toward your country and her Navy, I ask you to receive this ship. . . . May this ship long keep the seas in the battle for liberty. May the day come when she will carry the Norwegian flag into a home port in a free Norway...
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...