Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days were ever glorious, but the town once did have strength and reasonable expectations. Today, for reasons that are only partly economic, it has turned sick and sour. When Connie Tyler, fresh out of Harvard, came to Hindon in 1900 as a cub reporter for the Courier-Freeman, the reigning Yankees - the old-line whaling and rum-trading families which regularly produced one Harvard professor, one state Governor and one well-bred alcoholic in each generation - had only begun to abdicate. Jostled from political control by their own Irish and Italian mill hands, they retreated to the banks and sulked...
Devil's Advocate. In Brisbane. Australia, the Christadelphian Church ran an ad in the Courier Mail: "A vital address on the possibility of obtaining Immorality will be given by Mr. A. C. Mogg...
...voice of white supremacy rang defiantly in the Birmingham News, which referred to South African Negroes as "extras from a Hollywood safari movie." The Charleston News and Courier ("South Carolina's Most Outspoken Newspaper") used the assassination attempt to draw a parallel with Southern white integrationists: "The fact that it was a white man, not a native, who shot Verwoerd should surprise no one. Though racial revolution has spread across the Dark Continent, it would be easily put down but for the white men whose feelings of guilt, fear or misplaced idealism drive them to fight against their...
...pyaks outside the city limits) -they could count on a reassuring new introduction to Charlestonese-and a vague understanding of what the natives were talking about: Lord Ashley Cooper's Dictionary of Charlestonese* compiled by Columnist Frank (Cheaper by the Dozen) Gilbreth and published by the Charleston News & Courier, was selling like tiny bay shrimp on the streets of Charleston last week. So popular was the dictionary that Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was persuaded to insert it, in its entirety, into the Congressional Record...