Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last fortnight, the government unofficially disclosed its determination to cancel and renegotiate the company-government contracts under which Unifruit operates...
...nges had banned 260 publications, 133 of them from the U.S. Most were comics, pulps, detective chillers. But on his "B" list of "suspect" magazines, liable to banning, were many general U.S. magazines. Latest to feel the sting of Dönges' whip were bookstores. A fortnight ago, he ordered that all imported books be kept unopened in specially sealed bags until customs men could inspect them for "contraband" literature. In Johannesburg, there was a single customs man to cover 25 booksellers. Harried by clamoring customers, their stores crammed with unopened parcels, the booksellers cried for "relaxation." Last week...
...violence had subsided in Egypt's fight with Britain-and her allies-over control of the Suez Canal and the Sudan. Though they had stood by a fortnight ago while Egyptian mobs demonstrated and rioted in the streets, Egyptian leaders/last week issued a firm ban on mass demonstrations, and ordered police to enforce it. Thousands tested the ban in Alexandria and Cairo, coursing through the streets and breaking into shops. Police dispersed them with clubs, tear gas and gunfire. A mob descended on the Russian legation to cheer the Soviet.Union, but the cops also broke that up. Workers...
...Last fortnight Van Fleet aimed three U.N. divisions-the U.S. 24th with Colombians attached, the South Korean 2nd and-6th-in an all-out attack on Kumsong. By last week the three converging divisions had narrowed the 22-mile jump-off front to less than eight miles, and a torrent of artillery fire had turned most of Kumsong into burning and smoking rubble. The infantrymen were so close that they could have looked down into the town, if the weather had been clear instead of thick. The Chinese had pulled out most of their men and guns. Some 800, left...
...would be withheld. Every statement that he made was based on direct, first-hand contacts, but no one who heard him could conceivably suppose that he was claiming to give a "full" or "complete" picture of the U.S.S.R. or suggesting that such a picture could be based on a fortnight's observations...