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  • A white board, possibly digitised or some modern variation of the old overhead projector and chinagraph pen would often be preferable – and more enlightening.

    Perfect Your Presentation By Kidnapping Random Slides | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Rapidly, he was assembling on his map the chinagraph lines denoting likely killing zones (KZ) and their associated fire positions (FPs), blocking position (BPs), RVs and forward area re-arming and refuelling point

    First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984

  • Lieutenant Eric Olafson, the platoon commander, who, on the cessation of the bombardment, had begun to struggle through the wreckage in an effort to assess the state of affairs, could only acknowledge on his manpack radio, leaving it to Panton to fit this valuable piece of information into the mosaic in red chinagraph that was forming on his map.

    First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984

  • The initial subdivision of territory to platoons had hardened amid discussion into a positive scheme sketched in chinagraph on the talc of his map-board as they toured from left to right.

    First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984

  • If I can add, with a slight drift, I may have destroyed Little Chartres, West Falklands 'hopes of becoming an angling venue of renown by writing in big chinagraph letters' NO FISH HERE 'in their guest book in 85.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • But the command rooms survive, protected by six inch thick steel doors, with the names of the last crews written up in chinagraph pencil, and an American style burger bar complete with the last menu specials.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • It's as if he's taken a photographer's standard working practice of marking up contact sheets with a chinagraph pencil and gone hog wild.

    Personism unbeige 2010

  • But the command rooms survive, protected by six inch thick steel doors, with the names of the last crews written up in chinagraph pencil, and an American style burger bar complete with the last menu specials.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • If I can add, with a slight drift, I may have destroyed Little Chartres, West Falklands 'hopes of becoming an angling venue of renown by writing in big chinagraph letters' NO FISH HERE 'in their guest book in 85.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • If I can add, with a slight drift, I may have destroyed Little Chartres, West Falklands 'hopes of becoming an angling venue of renown by writing in big chinagraph letters' NO FISH HERE 'in their guest book in 85.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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