Word: fortnights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Party in Jeeps. Ever since a tangle with the gendarmes last month in a remote mountain pass, Dadshah had been expecting the gendarmes to come after him. One day last fortnight, spotting a couple of jeeps crossing Tangeorkheh, the bandits opened fire, knowing that Iranian cops move by jeep. Instead this was a party of five, including two American members of a technical aid mission to Iran, 37-year-old Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash, and Brewster Wilson, 35, of Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across...
Never Before. They rowed their light new shell as much as 20 practice miles a day, and while their Cambridge rivals performed a few conventional, delicate knee bends each day, they worked hard at weight-lifting and running. Last fortnight they made one 24-mile pull from...
Five months ago, union leaders in three major industries, one after another, demanded a 10% wage increase for their men. Fortnight ago, to back up their demand. 210,000 shipyard workers walked out of Britain's 70 yards, which have enough orders on the books to keep booming through 1961. Six days later, the 2,750,000 members of Britain's "engineering" unions began a "snowball strike," or progressive walkout, which by April 6 was scheduled to close down 4,300 factories producing everything from textile looms to bombers. In the background, muttering ominously, were...
...Delany passed Maryland's Burr Grim and won by 15 yds. His time: a creditable 4:09.4. It was Delany's 16th successive indoor victory (an achievement topped with the maraschino cherry of his spectacular 1,000-yd. and two-mile victories in the same evening a fortnight ago). There are many who think this performance puts Ron Delany up there among the greatest runners of all time. Yet there were men who were moved to boos as he broke the tape last week...
...series during slack hours on Saturdays and Sundays. But millions of U.S. viewers are out of range of the educational stations-they will get no benefit from the NBC project, and will have to take hope for the future in the high intentions voiced by commercial broadcasters fortnight ago at a Boston conference on public-service programing, hosted by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Many would agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have faith in an audience. I have heard from so many people who say, 'Please, let's have...