Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before World War II the principal function of newspaper travel copy was to fill the white space between resort ads. This dubious responsibility fell either to hacks or to travel-ad salesmen; when the Milwaukee Sentinel, a Hearstpaper, decided to beef up its travel department, it reached into the ranks of the advertising department for an editor. Most travel stories were no more than barely rewritten handouts from railroads, tourist centers and Miami Beach...
...Milwaukee, Hearst's morning Sentinel (circ. 85,684), perennially a distant second to the sleek Journal (circ. 369,418), is widely regarded as one of the most unprofitable papers in the Hearst fold. The Journal has picked up 45,150 in new circulation since 1950, while the Sentinel took...
Thoughtful U.S. Southerners-including many Senators who were going through the Shintoesque ceremonial of the filibuster-knew full well that their case against the right to vote was doomed. Said the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel last week: "It must be generally realized that this repression of Negro citizens won't be tolerated indefinitely-and that remedies enforced by the national will are bound to be more distasteful than measures instituted through willing compromise." Summed up an editorial in North Carolina's Charlotte Observer: "Here is a fight of words against time, of men against inevitability, of voices against...
...troops were thick in the downtown area around the barricades where the insurgents on sentinel duty peered watchfully over the parapets...