Word: fortnights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Legionnaire and onetime professional basketball player, coach and supervisor of officials for the National Basketball Association, who is now Craig's loyal, hardhitting administrative assistant. Critics have hung a label on Moore: "Double-Dribble Doxie." As if to accommodate them, Doxie at times double-dribbles. A fortnight ago, without consulting Craig, he sent out a flurry of telegrams, over the governor's name, taking the wrong side on the President's world trade program. Complained Doxie later: "It was more involved than I thought." Said Craig: "I'm with the Administration on this...
Only Emperor Hirohito himself could attract such attention. With a nationwide election less than a fortnight away, 72-year-old Ichiro Hatoyama seemed to be establishing himself as the most popular politician in postwar Japan...
...local press promptly named the statue "The Groping Boy." Snapped Roy Elkins, managing editor of the Bristol Virginia-Tennnessean: "The deer looks half-starved and the boy is in even worse shape." To most Bristol citizens the work was "idiotic," "ridiculous" and "a monstrosity." Last fortnight the city council voted to pay $2,600 for the artist's expenses, and canceled the contract...
Music may be for the young at heart, but it is not necessarily made by the young in years. Manhattan had a brilliant mid-season fortnight, with many of the star performers over 60 and showing no signs of giving...
...recent trend, e.g., Dragnet, is to turn TV plays into movies, using the TV shows as publicity buildups. Several studios and independents are bidding for Patterns, the TV play about big business that got a repeat performance fortnight ago on Kraft TV Theater (TIME. Feb. 21). Seven other TV shows have either been made into movies or are under consideration, including Marty, Dear Phoebe, Halls of Ivy and Waterfront...