Word: fortnights
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...fortnight ago there finally was a break in that reluctant agreement by the families to accept the men's wishes. Catherine Quinn decided she could no longer obey such orders. When her son Patrick, 29, was unable to hold down water and fell unconscious, she defied him and had prison authorities take him to a nearby hospital and feed him intravenously. "He can't make a decision for himself any more," she said, "I want my boy to live." When Pat Quinn regains his wits, the cruel struggle between family and cause will continue...
Alone at last? Yes, but only after the royal yacht Britannia managed to shake off its accompanying flotilla of well-wishers at Gibraltar and run for the open Mediterranean, could its two passengers, Prince Charles, 32, and his new bride, Diana, 20, begin a fortnight of solitude and sightseeing...
...cool Chris prevail after a furious fortnight...
...answer is that though environmentalists are not about to be hanged, the conservation programs they know and love seem in grave danger of being done in -if not within a fortnight, then soon...
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully...