Word: fortnights
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...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...
...jail he stayed until a fortnight ago, when he was accused for the first time, and tried before a muttering audience of 2,300. He was sentenced to serve six months (which he had already served), and told to get out of China. This week Archbishop Pollio reached Hong Kong and freedom, saddened by the knowledge that his flock was now the wolf...
...Word. As usual, the Kremlin's course was clouded by a diversionary sprinkling of dove feathers. A fortnight ago Vladimir Semenov, Russian "political adviser" to the Soviet high commissioner in Berlin, returned from two weeks in Moscow. Next day he called a meeting of top Communists in East Berlin and gave them the word straight from headquarters: Russia's dominant aim now, more important even than Korea, is to prevent at all costs West Germany's rearmament and integration into the West defenses...
...more than a year rumors circulated that Evita suffered from anemia, but the terrific pace of her public life belied the reports. A fortnight ago doctors announced that she was in bed with influenza. She was so ill on the day of the revolt that she was given a blood transfusion and not told of the uprising until it was over. Then she insisted on speaking over the radio from her sickroom at the presidential residence...
Sales have jumped so high in the past fortnight that Ford dealers have only one-fourth of their normal supply, lowest in the company's history. Cadillac has orders for the next nine months' output; Plymouth has an average of only three cars a dealer, Oldsmobile 3.5, and Buick 3. Instead of waiting for Big Three models, many customers are buying from Nash, Studebaker and Hudson, whose sales are up as much as 47%. Even used-car dealers have begun to feel the change. Automen do not expect the sellers' market to ease up. They expect...