Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injuring 20 persons including physicians and nurses. Last October, Israel's two chief rabbis, joined by 356 other religious leaders, called for repeal of the 1953 law. Ever since, the Orthodox dissenters, led by the ultra-rightist Agudath Israel Party, have stepped up a grisly campaign against postmortems. Fortnight ago, they accused a Tel Aviv hospital of stealing the heart of a rabbi's wife after she died...
That windfall of war was celebrated last week in the tranquil islands with the tintinnabulation of steel bands and church bells. A commemorative 6? airmail postcard-the first in U.S. history-was issued for the fortnight-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Transfer Day. Denmark sent officials and exhibits, and the Danish flag was hoisted again beside the old Government House. The islanders cavorted and caroused at horse races, baseball games, parades, masquerade parties and firework shows...
...Patrick Genda, 39, who had been summoned from his United Nations diplomatic post to head a new military junta, which had overthrown Army Commander David Lansana, who had arrested Prime Minister Siaka Stevens, who had been named to replace Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai, whose government apparently lost last fortnight's elections...
...when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause was still hopeless. Pattie had proved conclusively that she was the faster boat and deserved the right to represent Australia against the U.S. next September. Packer, typically enough, did not concur. He asked for a fortnight's layoff to modify Gretel again and a whole new series of elimination trials...
...bluest-chip corporations must pay for a bank loan, commercial banks have agreed about what that interest charge should be. Sometimes it has taken a few days; once, in 1958, it took a week for the pacemaking banks to fall in line with a lower rate. But for a fortnight some 40 of the nation's biggest banks have, to their consternation, found themselves in an unexpected battle over "the prime" with Chase Manhattan, New York City's biggest and the nation's second largest bank...