Word: markers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolling green hills of central Korea, a party of U.S. soldiers and correspondents stopped beside a weathered wooden post. On the post was stenciled in orange paint "U.S. 47." "That's Marker 47," said a G.I. "Over the hill there's another one. That's all there is to the 38th parallel. Just a few posts...
Soon the little gasoline-driven railway coach from the North Korea capital, Pyongyang, pulled up on the Russian side of the border. Russian-trained soldiers of the "Korean Peoples Army" bustled around, escorted two elderly Koreans to ward Marker 47. They were 74-year-old Kim Koo, former chief of the Korean government in exile, and 66-year-old Dr. Kimm Kiu Sic. Alone of South Korean political leaders, they had accepted a Communist invitation to go to Pyongyang. The subject for discussion: how to unify Korea...
Such should not be too difficult, for thus far the physical educators have succumbed to all: Williams beat them, 16 to 10; M.I.T. beat them, 8 to 4; New Hampshire edged them by one marker. Bob Maddox's teat swamped M.I.T. and New Hampshire and lost a close one to Williams, but he is not overconfident...
...visitors drew first blood in the second frame on a home run by first baseman Wally Coulson over the newly-installed right field fence. They also tallied another marker in the same inning for an early 2 to 0 lead...
...sole Harvard marker came at 18:22 of the second period when Shaw McKean angled a long one into the far corner of the twines. But the rest of the time the line was just too closely guarded to be effective, despite the aggressive efforts of Dave Key and Dick Greeley...