Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death was still unexplained. At week's end the New York police department made public the result of its special investigation: "Mr. Duggan either accidentally fell or jumped...
Ottawa reasons that if either Canada or the U.S. goes to war, the other will inevitably be an active ally. Standardization of arms is obviously desirable. Canada would like to start the project with 1,500 to 2,000 planes, the first half for the R.C.A.F. and the second half for the U.S. With the dollars obtained from selling the planes to the U.S., Canada could pay for purchases of U.S.-produced armaments...
...have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news. Then they had to shut up shop. Every gullible soul in town had gone tearing off to the gold fields, leaving nobody to buy a paper...
...time, however, the play largely abandons the physical for the metaphysical. The victims come to feel completely alienated from their leader because he has not known, as they have, either the agony of torture or the degradation of being tortured; between captured and captors develops a terrific desire to make the other party feel psychologically defeated; more & more the prisoners of the Vichyites are motivated by pride rather than patriotism. The pity continues to take odd and sudden turns right...
There is no lack of either a mind or a theater mind in The Victors-it is as charged with ideas as with harsh melodrama. The fault, in fact, lies just that way-in a too-muchness of everything that becomes a form of melodrama in itself. In piling up too many motives, in piling on too much horror, the play loses its impact. The characters get to be much less human beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors...