Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close in again. He was fired for laziness from a $7-a-day job on a garbage truck, locked out of his rented room until back rent was paid, forbidden to see chubby, 14-year-old Caril Fugate, to whom he had proposed at least three times. Last fortnight Starkweather decided to get even. Before he was stopped, he had shot, stabbed or clubbed ten people to death, and Lincoln (pop. 120,000) shivered through a two-day panic...
...students, one armed with a shovel, the other with a knife, attacked a third boy in the cafeteria. Last fortnight a 13-year-old girl was reportedly raped in the school basement. Later a hoodlum from the outside punched a policeman on the school grounds, and two other hoodlums, also from the outside, assaulted the school's recreation director. As a result of these incidents, Principal George Goldfarb, 55, was twice called before a special grand jury investigating juvenile delinquency in the schools. He was supposed to appear a third time last week...
...naval family, he steered clear of the military group that originally brought Pérez Jiménez' junta to power in 1948, held minor posts (naval attache in Washington, head of the Caracas Military Club) under the dictator, was named supreme commander of the navy only a fortnight ago by the hard-pressed strongman...
Jacoba ("Joke") Haanschoten, 5, a child of a Putten factory worker, had enlarged and infected adenoids that threatened to block a Eustachian tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx...
Down the Road. Bob Young's golden moment soon passed. Like every other U.S. road, the Central was caught in the nationwide rail slump. Fortnight ago the Central's directors voted not to pay the quarterly dividend. The railroad's earnings had plummeted along with the stock, which reached a low of 13¼ last week. Bob Young, who had borrowed heavilyto buy the 100,000 shares of Central stock he owned, was forced by lenders to sell as the price skidded lower. By year's end he had unloaded all but a few thousand...