Word: markers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night, the Sun Again. Darkness brought hope. The men on the rafts heard the engines of a bomber-a B-iy from Hickam Field, Hawaii. They fired flares, saw marker flares dropped in reply. The B-17 turned away and their hopes fell. During the night, one of the men died. As the sun grew hot again, the sky was empty and silent. Pilot Calhoun, a commander still, allowed each man one sip of water in the first 24 hours. It only seemed to make their thirst keener...
Mauran broke loose again ten plays later, as he went 40 more yards on a weak side buck before being hauled down on the two. On the next play as eight Yalies flattened Mauran, Dave Warden swept around end untouched for the marker. Rosenau added another point...
...Yale Club of New York, across Vanderbilt Avenue from Grand Central Station, dedicated a plaque proclaiming that "near this site" Capt. Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was hanged by the British in 1776. Previously the marker had been affixed to a slaughterhouse (seven blocks away), now about to be razed for a United Nations building...
...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
...meter hurdles, rested a while under a blanket on the wet ground, and then got up to make a mighty discus heave. But for a while no one knew just how far it was, or whether it would count, because someone had accidentally knocked over the marker showing where the discus fell. For about two hours, raincoated officials plodded around the soggy field looking for the marker. They found it at last, and measured out the longest toss...