Word: fortnightly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the Sixth Fleet struck at Libyan air-defense batteries and patrol boats a fortnight ago without suffering a single casualty, America's top military brass celebrated more than just a victory over Muammar Gaddafi. The Pentagon offered the Navy's demonstration of high-tech firepower as a telling retort to an increasingly restive band of congressional critics who accuse the military of building "gold-plated" weapons that will turn out to be duds in combat. Like Libya's radar transmitters, the Pentagon's detractors were silenced, but only for the moment...
...summiteers are the world's three best pole vaulters, Billy Olson, 27, and Joe Dial, 23, of the U.S., and the U.S.S.R.'s overarching Sergei Bubka, 22. Since the start of the year, the three have bettered one another's indoor records six times, and during the past fortnight they have gone height to height in U.S. indoor track-and-field meets from New York to California and back again. The visiting Bubka emerged on top, winning three of the five meets and twice setting new records, the last at 19 ft. 6 1/4 in. Despite earlier cross-country tensions...
...asked an ice mason at the end of his shift one recent afternoon. "Right around 56 ft.," replied his boss. The laborer chuckled and shook his head at the preposterous wonder of the thing. But even great architecture seldom endures forever, and the ice palace will last barely a fortnight: demolition is scheduled for next Thursday...
...negotiators to pull out all stops in seeking a general statement of principles or perhaps an interim accord on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) based in Europe. One American official remarked that it all reminded him "of what Dr. Johnson said about the prospect of being hanged in a fortnight: 'It concentrates the mind wonderfully...
Wimbledon's determination not to assign a top women's seed before the world's toniest tennis tournament represented an equal kindness to Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd. That meant, for nearly a fortnight, neither was No. 2, and the peace was wonderful. "Once you've been No. 1," as Evert Lloyd says with a cool stare (she could stare for a living), "you can never be satisfied with less...