Word: sentineled
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...appointment was criticized as being blatantly political. Editorialized the Milwaukee Sentinel: "Our pride must be tempered by the fact that the appointment is obviously political . . . He was an early Kennedy supporter and his name is Polish, a coincidence which is likely to make some Kennedy votes next year among the heavy Polish-American populations of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York." Asked about all this at his press conference, President Kennedy said blandly: "I think we just happen to be fortunate that his grandparents came from Poland...
From the more moderate Southern papers, many of which had objected to Wallace's tactics last June, the new wave of censure was predictably severe. "George Wallace," editorialized the Knoxville News-Sentinel, "continues to bring disgrace on his office and his state. One would think that Wallace had learned his lesson since his low-comedy performance of 'standing in the door...
...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...