Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Company officials protested that they had violated neither the spirit nor the letter of their contract with the union. Labor Leader Gordon Preble, a former steelworker, was adamant. The union, he said, was not impressed by "the song & dance about this guy's mother and sister being persecuted and murdered...
...Though he can neither read nor write, 25-year-old Lewis West of Miami, a Negro, managed to get himself sentenced to 23 months in prison for forgery. His method: he simply stole Government checks from a mailbox, marked them with an X and got obliging neighborhood merchants to cash them...
...exactly a green light for radio. But, on the other hand, neither...
...seduction of Bobby-Soxer Sally Kelton (Sally Forrest) is neither brutal nor particularly sordid. It is simply commonplace. By the time Sally knows that she is pregnant, her seducer has disappeared and she is already half in love with an upstanding young gas-station manager (Keefe Brasselle). From there on the plot follows all the steps of Sally's degradation and eventual rehabilitation with a kind of remorseless documentary fervor...
...stories which Miss Martha Foley, an old hand at editing this sort of anthology, says are the best of the past year. Perhaps they are the best; they are still not very good. Yet it is probable that if another editor had chosen them they would be neither much better nor greatly different. For these stories accurately reflect the work of the younger and more "serious" postwar writers...