Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back came all the honorary badges; out went the political hangers-on and crooks. Director Hoover began to gather around him a new kind of cop: a bright young college graduate who owned either a law degree or a C.P.A.'s certificate. The first laboratory was set up, with one man and a few test tubes. The few scattered fingerprint files in existence were gathered together...
Boiling mad, he returned to his office and demanded the latest reports on Alvin Karpis, the last of the Barker gang. Then he flew down to New Orleans, personally led the raiding squad into Karpis' hideout. Since then no one has ever questioned either Hoover's courage or his budget...
...critic for the News Chronicle raised a lone voice of dissent: '"Forgive me dear. I can't cry,' said the Salesman's wife over his grave . . . Forgive me, Paul Mum, but I can't cry either." The driest eyes of all, however, were those of the box-office clerks, busily selling tickets for ten weeks ahead...
...well loaded as far as the do-re-mi is concerned and I take it for granted that she handles the stone situation." In Runyonese there was only one tense, the universal present, for the characters who used it were usually too engrossed in the immediate moment to look either backward or forward...
...Stumbaugh, stopped while walking out of the Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...