Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongest statistical evidence came from Pollster George Gallup. Last fortnight Gallup asked: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?" The results: 65% approve, 20% disapprove, 15% have no opinion. By any standard, 65% approval is a high rating. But for President Eisenhower, the figure represented a sharp drop of 10 percentage points in just six weeks...
...urging terrorist action in Nairobi itself, which in the first days of the emergency was relatively safe. In the capital's stinking slums, 100,000 Kikuyu (most of them not Mau Mau) sleep where they can. rocking their babies in sacks that are festooned around mud-hut walls. Fortnight ago, Mau Mau sent a message to these teeming slums: "Africans will stop using mzungu [white-owned] buses, and will stop smoking cigarettes." For emphasis, they strangled one bus-using, cigarette-smoking Kikuyu and tossed his body into the Nairobi River. Overnight, every Negro in the capital, from government-employed...
...press conferences. (In the first year of office, Truman had 42, Roosevelt 102 and Hoover 23.) But his announcements are made flatly, with little elaboration. Newsmen who try to question him are often good-naturedly, but nonetheless firmly, brushed aside. As a result, their reports are often confusing. Fortnight ago, after Ike was questioned on balancing the budget, the New York Times headlined...
...Arlie said he wanted to see the world. He was sent to Korea. He fought there, and was taken prisoner by the Chinese Reds. families of the 23 "progressives" "could send to Korea. Eighteen families, including the Pates, accepted the opportunity to plead with their sons to come home. Fortnight ago, Howard Pate, 47, his wife Zady, Arlie's 18-year-old sister, Beulah, and Mrs. Jeanette Daley, Arlie's aunt, were driven up to station WCBS in Springfield...
...Belmont Park, John S. Phipps's three-year-old colt Level Lea won the $81,350 Jockey Club Gold Cup by six lengths in a slow 3:27 for the two miles. ¶[ In Paris, the U.S. Ryder Cup golf team, conquerors of the British fortnight ago, beat a team of continental pros, twelve matches to three...