Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the turmoil was Law 75, promulgated in Frankfurt last fortnight by the Anglo-U.S. military commanders in Bizonia, Generals Sir Brian Robertson and Lucius D. Clay. Law 75 transfers ownership of the Ruhr coal, iron and steel industries to temporary German trustees, and provides that when a freely elected democratic German government is able to do so, it shall decide the question of private or public ownership. The reason given for Law 75 was that the promise of eventual German ownership would raise morale among German workers and managers, and therefore raise production...
...Task. Last fortnight, in the operating room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...
...spring when players, brooding over past grievances, organized a union; some felt underpaid, all were exasperated by the rules which allow clubs to sell or trade players at will. Wealthy clubs had taken to buying up promising hooters, not to play but to sit idle on the bench. A fortnight ago, the players put on a token strike. At exactly 3:45 p.m., in every stadium in Argentina, all players abruptly stood stock-still for one minute, then went on with the game...
...past fortnight, New Yorkers have been having their first look at daylong television. Beginning at 7 a.m. Du Mont's WABD flickers along all day until the regular evening program starts. The programs are strongly reminiscent of daytime radio: setting-up exercises, Broadway gossip, popular music, women's news-everything except soap opera...
...through his familiarity with such contrivances as rocket-ships and atomic persuaders, damn near succeeded. But after weathering several molecular blasts, Superman balked the "power-crazed demon," who had had the United Nations eating out of his hand. Immediately following this chilling epic, however, Superman dawdled a whole fortnight, breaking up a dowdy bunch of racketeers engaged in fixing football games...