Word: fortnighters
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...dear Girl, I thank Heaven that another Fortnight will restore you to me--after so long a separation. My soul and Body have both been thrown into disorder by your Absence, and a Month of two more would make me the most insufferable Cynick in the World...
Fromme will return to Judge MacBride's court for sentencing on Dec. 17. On that date, Sara Jane Moore is scheduled to be on trial in San Francisco for firing a shot at President Ford a fortnight after Fromme made her attempt...
...brevity of the visit is remarked at each stop. You point out that if you stayed the fortnight you would wish in Country A, you couldn't go on to B and C, and how long has it been, by the way, since your new Brazilian friend was in Chile, or your Peruvian lunch companion in Argentina? A long time, it usually turns out, and sometimes never. This conversation, all the way around the continent, serves as a steady reminder that South America still is more of an entity on the map than in the minds of the South...
...rowhouses. When my train pulled into Belfast on the afternoon of the eleventh, some of the older kids were joining in and throwing old furniture onto the piles. Shops were closing up early and the people on the streets seemed to be in a hurry to get home: the fortnight holiday had begun. That night the red-yellow flames of bonfires etched the city's roofs into the night, and the strains of bagpipe music filtered through the streets, while sirens filled the air. Bonfires lit up all of Ulster, and the sirens were ominous at first--they seemed...
...preseason games have turned into a top-price gouge for fans (tickets can run as high as $10). More important, the early games can be dangerous, injury-inducing torture for athletes forced to play hard before their bodies are ready. By last week, with the regular season still a fortnight away, the casualty list was lengthening into the roster of an all-pro team in traction. A sampling...