Word: fortnights
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...Only a fortnight before, Douglas MacArthur had called on the Communists to meet him on the battlefield to negotiate peace in Korea. His statement had sent Washington, U.N. and Western European diplomats into a dither, and the world rang with demands that he be silenced or recalled...
...wonderful time these last two weeks." The thin man from Columbus, captain of the 1950-51 varsity basketball team and an All-Ivy and All-New England first team selection, tuned down the radio at his elbow and explained just what he had been doing during the past fortnight...
...others. In the outsize edition, Hicks found a "general line of ... bias ... in the direction of giving the Soviet Union the benefit of almost every doubt, and the United States the benefit of very little doubt at all." Hicks broadened the indictment of Nation foreign policy made last fortnight by ex-Nation Staffer Clement Greenberg (TIME, April 2) to include the Nation's basic editorial policy under Editor Freda Kirchwey...
...placid little Bavarian village of Konnersreuth last fortnight flocked thousands of men & women and uniformed G.I.s. They came, as people have come for a generation, to witness the strange Good Friday manifestations that have taken place for 25 years upon the body of a peasant woman named Therese Neumann. Each Good Friday (and on about 25 other Fridays through the year), chunky, good-natured Therese has bled from her eyes and the wound in her side, or from the stigmata in her hands and feet, or from all these at once. Eight marks have appeared on her head...
...touring Kefauver committee last week made its triumphant return to Washington, leaving behind it a rash of probes, citizen crime investigations, red faced politicians, some civic firings, and a limp, but still eager, audience. It was a fortnight that had rocked the nation. In Chicago, hardy viewers shifted from foot to foot in 15° weather as they watched the hearings through TV-store windows. In Minneapolis, bars and restaurants with TV sets were thronged even in the mornings. In New York, the Consolidated Edison Co. had to switch on an extra generator to carry the daytime load...