Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powered King Kong, built of bronze, with a drain plug in his heel." This monster is genuine and belongs to the myth of the Argonauts. In his well-known The Greek Myths, Robert Graves writes: "The Argonauts reached Crete, where they were prevented from landing by Talos the bronze sentinel, a creation of Hephaestus, who pelted the Argo with rocks, as was his custom. Medea called sweetly to this monster . . . and, while he slept, she removed the bronze nail which stoppered the single vein running from his neck to his ankles. Out rushed the divine ichor, a colorless liquid serving...
...virologists, entomologists, and ecologists set to work. First, the disease detectives plotted where the fever victims had lived-and died. They put healthy monkeys in single cages and left them for days in the forest where four woodcutters had . I worked just before they became ill. They put other "sentinel" monkeys in houses left empty by the deaths of whole families of fever victims...
...biographical material. Miller's last cover assignment was closer to home: gathering material for the Harry Byrd cover. Both reporters are second-generation journalists: MacNeil's father was assistant managing editor of the New York Times, Miller's the editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel...
Newspaper history is studded with examples of similar miscalculations, most recently in Milwaukee, where a strike against Hearst's sickly morning Sentinel cost the American Newspaper Guild a 320-man local. Instead of meeting Guild demands, Hearst sold the Sentinel to the Milwaukee Journal−which is non-Guild. Papers in Portland, Ore., were once organized by both craft unions and the Guild, but no more: struck in 1960, the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal promptly imported and trained non-union help. The profitable Philadelphia Record died during a 1947 Guild strike; also struck by the Guild, the Brooklyn...
There were others who thought the Sentinel's problems were editorial. Described by one staffer as "the Hearst paper that most resembled a paper," the Sentinel tried hard to be one. But under Hearst, who bought the paper in 1924, it lost much of its independence and local voice. At the end it employed not a single fulltime editorial writer, relying instead on canned Hearst editorials sent out from New York; news-side staffers were assigned to write occasional local editorial comment on the side. A few of the striking Guildsmen will get their jobs back, although the Sentinel...