Word: neither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snapping turtle can be more close-mouthed than Vice President Garner and there was nothing to confirm such a supposition. But if the supposition were not valid, there remained only one inference: President and Vice President neither expected nor hoped to win action on the Supreme Court or any other important issue for several weeks-the White House had resigned itself to letting the New Deal program sink or swim in the Congressional doldrums...
...every sense of the word Rightists were anxious to make hay last week. Harvest time was almost at hand, and neither army will eat this autumn unless the barns are filled in the next few weeks. Reliable reports, too, had it that Rightist Franco's German and Italian backers were giving him his last chance, knowing that the Spanish adventure has become intensely unpopular with humble citizens in Germany and Italy...
...until about six years later, after they had moved to Lincoln, that Father & Son Coryell began to dress like twins. Somewhat tentative at first, this custom speedily became systematic with the Coryells. When one buys a suit the other goes along and gets an identical one. Neither ever buys a necktie, a shirt or a pair of socks without taking a duplicate home. The Coryell taste runs to costumes of some audacity and each ensemble is numbered to save time in the morning. Whichever Coryell wakes up first telephones the other and says, "I'm wearing the 23 suit...
...Ivan was a power and Irina a nobody, endangered. He saved her life but could not or would not keep her from prison. After an ingenious jail delivery engineered by her friends, when she was nearly at the Finnish border and safety, the two lovers met again. Whether neither or both or one crossed the border is a secret any adventure author would prefer readers to discover for themselves...
...Although the Harvard Bureau has been conducting intensive research on all of the technical aspects of traffic accidents and congestions, for a period of more than ten years, it recognizes that neither it nor--the other agencies working upon the situation have done more than scratch the surface. It is true, however, that there is now available a relatively simple formula of education, enforcement and engineering which, properly applied by training personnel, can invariably reduce traffic accidents and increase traffic efficiency...