Word: fortnightlies
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...partisan murmuration had already begun. Leading the rebel yell was Johnson's own majority whip, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who predicted a congressional investigation. "At the proper time," Mansfield promised, "we shall find out what lies beneath the confusing zigzags of official pronouncements of the past fortnight...
...time past, Nikita had kept his soldiers out of the diplomatic limelight, had even been prone to twit them in public. Only a fortnight ago, while boasting of the Soviet army's current troop cuts at a diplomatic reception, Nikita gibed: "One of our generals over there just scratched his head. Another reduction!" But last week, as he ranted through the most clamorous diplomatic debacle of modern times, Nikita thrust Russia's top soldier into the public eye at every opportunity...
Mississippi Negroes stuck a tentative toe into white waters fortnight ago on Biloxi's sun-drenched beach along the Gulf of Mexico. Led by Dr. Gilbert Mason, 31, Biloxi's only practicing Negro physician, 80 Negro men, women and children waded into the gulf, were driven off by a gang of club-wielding, chain-swinging whites. The Negroes have not been back. The new wade-in assault, said Wilkins, will aim at segregated, tax-supported beaches and parks in eleven states along a 2,000-mile coastline curving from Cape May, N.J. to Brownsville, Texas...
Ultimately, India's long-term survival depends on learning how to feed itself, which is the object of the $100 million project announced fortnight ago by India's partner in the scheme, the Ford Foundation (TIME, May 9). Until it begins to pay off with massively greater crop yields, S. K. Patil's stockpile will provide insurance against famine and a massive weapon against the speculators who year after year have been able to manipulate India's grain prices to the disadvantage of the largely helpless, hungry consumers...
...jazz bands resumed their raucous ways and the noisy, bright-lit bars were awash with tipsy revelers and eager ladies of the evening. In fact, except for a few damaged buildings and the soldiers guarding the National Assembly, there were no outward signs at all of Korea's fortnight of revolt...