Sentence:  <WSD>L'Unita</WSD> and Hoy published identical denunciations of Short 's elevation , l'Osservatore Romano and the Christian Science Monitor ignored it , Times of India snickered at it , and the Manchester Guardian simply reported it - the Fosterites in England were few but extremely militant . 
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