Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. Senate started debating the atomic-energy bill (see box) last fortnight, no one on Capitol Hill expected a major explosion. Then, New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson dropped in a rider to wipe out President Eisenhower's plan for AEC purchase of electric power from private companies. From that triggering device there mushroomed one of the bitterest filibusters ever...
Anchors Aweigh. Last fortnight, with the cargo safely ashore, Salvager Canipe and his crew pumped the remaining water out of the Babun, did some work on her machinery and prepared to refloat her. While the natives scoffed. Canipe got two enormous, aged anchors from a Norfolk junk yard, fastened cable lines to them and dropped them a quarter-mile out at sea. The other ends of the cable were fastened to the Babun's freshly oiled winches. One morning the Babun's twin diesel motors began to purr, her winches started to wind, and the big pull...
...four years that he headed O.F.P.O.C., John apparently did an outstanding job of eradicating Communist subversion in West Germany, and had the complete trust of the Anglo-American occupation authorities. A year ago he helped smash a Communist spy ring; a fortnight ago his evidence led to the legal banning in the West of the East Zone Youth Movement...
...student makes friends with a book or a man and treats them as if they were his contemporaries! He hardly knows the background from which they arise. They surge out of his own mental world, haunt him, call forth in him an instantaneous and, frequently, a passionate reaction. A fortnight later, however, others have taken their place; it is love at first sight, but indifference rapidly follows...
...Presidential House, instead renting a small residence more easily guarded by liberation soldiers. But most Guatemalans see the official residence as a solid symbol of power and expect the Chief Executive to live there. The point might be minor, but the effect, as Castillo Armas rounded out his first fortnight in power, was a certain drop in his prestige...