Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propagandists tirelessly charge that the South Koreans started the war. A fortnight ago, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N.: "The leaders of the South Korean government . . . were preparing to attack North Korea; they were preparing for war. They said so . . . They were working toward it, not in secret but with the support, protection and connivance of their protectors from beyond the seas...
Fingers & Eyes. A fortnight ago, acting on the Briton's hunch, Mrs. Lucas had a prescription filled for neostigmine. That cost only 35?. Then the visiting doctor, who has no license to practice in California, got a staff physician to give Billy the injection. While Mrs. Lucas held Billy on her lap, the British doctor waited to see what would happen...
...Viet Minh's General Vo Nguyen Giap had three Red divisions which had lain low for eight months. Last fortnight Giap attacked on a 40-mile front, quickly toppled a handful of mud-and-bamboo French outposts. His main target was the French stronghold of Nghialo (which the Communists had tried vainly, a year ago, to wrest from the late great General De Lattre de Tassigny...
Republican strategists have unleashed a one-two punch in the closing fortnight of a tight campaign. First came the dramatic announcement of a Korean Plan, vague enough to evade criticism but material enough to raise hopes. Then came the rabbit punch last Monday night. And while playing on the Korean war may be a defensible stratagem, Senator McCarthy's speech...
...worried-looking man with a Hitler haircut marched into the prosecutor's office in the German city of Lübeck a fortnight ago, and told a story that made the cops gasp. His name: Lothar Malskat, 39, artist by trade, and one of the painters who restored the bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich...