Word: markers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using avant garde shovel blades called "Jumbo Bats," Isis tralled all the way, challenging only at the mile marker, where it came to within one-quarter length of the sprinting varsity. Crimson stroke Tony Goodman and company finished the mile, 550 yard course in 6:39, a new record for the Henley distance...
...rival swimmers alike cheered him every time he appeared at poolside. A teen-age girl pressed a religious medal into his hand. With a good start, a racing dive this time, Farrell was up with the leaders at the turn. But as he sprinted home, he struck a lane marker with his arm and for a moment floundered off-rhythm. He closed fast, and the finishing order was in doubt - to everyone but himself. Even before the announcement, he buried his face in a towel and moaned: "Why didn't I have it? Why didn't I have...
...Were Home." They needed it. Even small wars are not complete without bungles. Brigadier General J. Ford Kent managed to maneuver three regiments, including Private Post and his outfit, onto a single cowpath over which a U.S. observation balloon served as a perfect marker for Spanish firepower. More than 400 men were killed or wounded at "Bloody Ford," and at one point Private Post found himself slipping on mud "made by the blood of the dead and wounded." When the men got to San Juan Hill, they rushed up as if it were "a football field when the game...
...course was marked on the ground by twelve four-by-four marker posts The flight was made 7½ miles in the air. The slightest violation of the course line would have disqualified the flight. Said General Moore: "It was like running blindfolded at top speed into a completely dark room, then running a perfect circle guided by the voice of someone outside the room." The "voice" outside, of course, was a form of radar ground control similar to that which helps aircraft land in bad weather...
...generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...