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Opening of a foreign correspondent's dispatch, often
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dateline
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, imaginary line down the Pacific Ocean on which the calendar day begins and ends, from date (n.1) + line (n.). Meaning "line of text that tells the date and place of origin of a newspaper, article, telegram, etc." is from 1888.
Usage examples of dateline.
It was from the Calgary Tribune and datelined - Jasper, 4th December: All those who made the pilgrimage up Thunder Creek to Campbell's Kingdom will mourn the loss of a friend.
These were once the datelines of choice for ambitious journalists—the Saigon , Beirut , and Managua of a younger world.
During the first three decades of the twentieth century, there were few better datelines for a journalist than " Adrianople .
Dental diagrams were replaced by newsy photographs, and the pages crackled with datelines and bylines from all over the world.
With crossing international datelines and whatnot, I don't even know what day it is or how many nights have really passed.
The datelines read: St, Louis, September 17, 1948, and Boston, June 5, 1950.
Han glanced over to see datelines blinking past with no entries, or entries so filled with electronic snow that it was impossible to see a face.
When Jane Pauley of NBC's Dateline interviewed Jennifer McVeigh about her thoughts on Waco, she said, "The way I saw it, the Davidians were just a group of people who had their own way of living, perhaps different from the mainstream.