Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that such worries were at least partly justified. At least one top officer in the French army had been guilty of gross carelessness, or worse, in the handling of top-secret military information. The officer was General Georges Marie Joseph Revers, chief of the French general staff, who a fortnight ago was summarily sacked by the French cabinet...
...speech last fortnight, Perón disclosed for the first time what all this was leading up to. He would like a new "loyal opposition" party, with the accent on loyalty-rather than opposition-to Peronista ideas. "If I could bequeath something great to the republic," the President mused, "my legacy would be my party-and opposing it a second one, organic and decent. At present in opposition there are only political gangs . . . We must put an end to political gangs...
...World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she averaged a trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said a Cunard official, with never...
...many Bostonians, after a fortnight of Munch their orchestra was already beginning to sound a trifle different, more relaxed and spontaneous. Expert ears, such as those of Harvard's Composer Walter Piston, found it "less fat." Composer Aaron Copland thought that "Munch probably looks for sonority more than Koussevitzky. And the orchestra didn't have quite the violence that...
...fortnight, U.S. Methodists have been studying the state of the world and the dangers it holds for religion. Behind closed doors in a Manhattan hotel, 36 bishops of the Methodist Church spent three days trying to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, the failures and successes of Communism. Last week, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Methodists assembled for the tenth annual meeting of their Board of Missions and Church Extension. Some of what they heard was cheering: Chinese Communists were treating missionaries better than had been expected and the church in the U.S. was growing fast enough...