Sentence:  Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics , it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy 's representative will <WSD>mark</WSD> 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:  designate as if by a mark