Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened in New Zealand last fortnight, and it happened again last week in Australia: the ruling Socialist party was decisively thrown...
When Frank Waldrop, editor of the Washington Times-Herald, came home for dinner one evening last fortnight, his ten-year-old son Andrew had exciting news: "Harry Hopkins was a spy!" The boy had been listening to Fulton Lewis Jr.'s radio interview with ex-Major G. Racey Jordan and, as Waldrop said afterward, "That was his young way of summing it up." Waldrop's own way of summing it up for his readers was to reprint verbatim the broadcast of Lewis, who is not celebrated for his accuracy. Waldrop made no effort to determine whether...
...that speech, delivered in Jujuy last month, Radical Deputy Atilio Cattáneo had waxed sarcastic about the wealth which leading Peronistas now display-including President Perón's quinta at San Vicente, reputedly worth $300,000. A fortnight later Perón denounced the deputy's charges, prompting Prensa and Nación, which had not published the original speech, to print short resumes of it along with the President's reply. Roused by this action, Perón last week called his cabinet, the entire foreign correspondents' corps and some 50 local newsmen...
While a violent storm lashed British Columbia a fortnight ago, the 101-ton tug George McGregor was returning without tow from Bamberton to Victoria. Rounding Trial Island, near Victoria, she caught the full blast of the gale and the pull of the riptide. The combination was too much. She began to roll, then capsized and sank...
After Sunday's victory, all he had to worry about (besides another game with the New York Giants) was next fortnight's championship playoff with the league's Western Division winners. Greasy was reasonably self-assured. Said he: "I haven't got 30 players. I have 30 coaches. Why not? They're smart fellows; they all went to college...