Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touched off a series of protests from the city's other paper, the Knoxville News-Sentinel. "If works of art are to be judged by the public beliefs and public morals of their creators," the News-Sentinel said, "many of the world's masterpieces would have to be tossed into the garbage can." Letters to the editor from all over the state blasted the Legion for its part in the ban. One called them "our local commissars of culture...
Sprinkler Sentinel. An automatic timer which will turn off lawn sprinklers after any period from one to 60 minutes has been put on the market by Automatic Controls Corp. of Ann Arbor, Mich. Price...
...driven: he knew its grades, its crossings, the country on each side of its right of way. He asked his guard for permission to use the toilet. The guard removed his arm and leg irons, saw him into the small compartment at the car's end, and stood sentinel outside...
Dedicated Sentinel. Novelist Buzzati's fortress, which symbolizes the abode of brave souls, stands on a lonely mountaintop. It commands a view of a misty steppe to the north, from where it may at any moment be attacked. In Dostoevsky's day the invaders were known as "Nihilists" ; today, Buzzati calls them "Tartars." But their name is unimportant; what matters is that they represent the forces of spiritual despair and destruction...
Young Lieut. Drogo is posted to the fort. Like any man in a lonely outpost, physical or spiritual, Drogo is awed by the terrible solitude, but strengthened by the thought that he is a dedicated sentinel. In weak moments he is appalled to think that he has renounced all the normal benefits and joys of life; in others, he feels so proud of his role as defender-of-the-faith that he scorns the city as a place of "streets in the rain . . . plaster statues . . . damp barracks, tuneless bells, tired and misshapen faces, endless afternoons, dirty dusty ceilings...