Word: fortnights
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...watched the third Red mob in a fortnight hammer its way into the City Hall. They were only about 1,000 strong, and of these only about 50 were determined toughs. At the glass front door six aged clerks leaned heavily: on their arms little white bands designated them as the special "defense force" promised by the acting mayor, Ferdinand Friedensburg...
...Czechoslovakia, two Capuchin monks were arrested for "antistate activity." In the past fortnight 23 priests and nuns have been arrested...
...fortnight ago Correspondent Don Burke closed TIME Inc.'s Cairo bureau and made his exodus from Egypt. During his year there as bureau chief, the war in the Holy Land made things unusually difficult for journalists. The press censorship was intolerable to the point where Egyptian censors even rewrote correspondents' copy to suit themselves ; there were repeated acts of violence against foreigners on the streets of Cairo; TIME was banned for being "unfriendly to the Arab cause" after our May 24 cover story on King Abdullah of Transjordan...
...service of the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, this revealing light showed every detail: ruff-collared Scandinavians; bearded, black-veiled Orthodox dignitaries; purple-cassocked Old Catholics; saffron-stoled representatives of the Church of South India; U.S. pastors in business suits and glittering spectacles. For the past fortnight, delegates from 147 churches in 44 countries-every major branch of Christianity except Roman Catholicism and the Russian Orthodox Church-had been working, planning and praying together...
During the last fortnight Professor Zhebrak has recanted his heresy. "I, as a party member," said he in a letter to Pravda, "do not consider it possible for me to retain the views which have been recognized as erroneous by the Central Committee of our party...