Sentence:  Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics , it <WSD>is</WSD> to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy 's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)