Word: markers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocket Expert Dr. Willy Ley wanted to get going on plans for a rocket platform to be shot out beyond the atmosphere so it would rotate around the earth, like the moon, as one of earth's satellites. Such a satellite would be a marker for navigators, a refueling station for interplanetary pilots, and a wonderful "earth-watching platform," said...
...threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to end Tom Johnson in the first period of the Lowell-Dudley game. In the third period, the Bellboy back scored on a 30-yard run, after failing to find a pass receiver. Ian Cadenhead bucked for three yards and the third Lowell marker late in the fourth quarter...
...59th day the sonic gear picked up another marker in the underseas graveyard. Over went the camera, 285 feet down off the island of Alderney. Onto the screen came the image of a submarine's conning tower. As the camera swept along the hull, the brass name plate came into focus: Affray...
...endlessly flowing paper is controlled by colored tags and big "buck-slips." Congressional letters, of which the Pentagon gets about 300 a day, get a yellow "expedite" tag; an "urgent" tag is red, and one "rush-rush" marker is known as "the green hornet." An expert use of the buckslip-a small routing slip on which higher authority checks off directions such as "for action," "please brief for me," etc. -is an essential Pentagon skill. The classic story is one of a newly arrived Navy commander, snowed under with accumulating papers, who stumped over to an old hand behind...
...grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...