Word: either
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where in the world is there an average person? The sad fact is that either you get cancer or you don't. For the unlucky ones, it can be a very painful and traumatic experience...
Nonetheless, opponents promised to continue fighting. Last week they offered four crippling amendments to the second treaty. Each was knocked down by overwhelming majorities, including an absurd proposal put forth by Wyoming Republican Malcolm Wallop. It called for return of the canal to the U.S. if either country violated the new treaties. New York Democrat Patrick Moynihan angrily called the idea "inane" and "devoid of intellectual content." Said he: "We are reducing the Senate to a playground of juvenilia, a playpen of prepubescent youth." After colleagues objected to the unusual personal attack, Moynihan apologized...
...that the disaster has receded, quite a few of the hardy Rhode Islanders are having second thoughts about taking handouts from Uncle Sam. Some 250 people who received written authorization have either returned the document or refunded the value of the stamps they used. Says Thomas Marcello, an overseer of the program in Providence: "We had a return of over $13,000. and returns are still straggling...
Gray Lady Down is that old favorite about the damaged submarine resting on the bottom, its occupants growing ever more fearful that they may be done in either by a deficit of air or a surplus of water (Will those hatches hold at this depth?). Topside, expensive efforts, often frustrated, are made to rescue them...
...amusement park famous county-wide, but in spring all anyone can do is stare at the deserted rides. There are two bars in town, but I have grown weary of watching the local football players and their fawning cheerleaders. Visiting the old high school doesn't tempt me either. Most of the teachers I Knew are gone, and all the people are too young. Only the speckled floors, bisected by a strip of silver, are the same. The lunchroom now has round tables on which ice cream sandwich wrappers are still smeared...