Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koch described herself as a "handsome, vivacious blonde," a typist for the American Military Government, who had tired of American men. When she appeared at the little cafe for her first meeting with the "well-situated and sophisticated" young man whose answer she had selected, she proved to be neither handsome nor vivacious nor blonde. She was thin, tired, brunette and nervous. But the young man was nervous too. Neither well-situated nor particularly sophisticated, he had just returned from five years in a Russian P.W. camp, had landed a lowly clerical...
...village clerk returned, Rensburg was the talk of the town and all Hennenman was scrubbing itself clean. The town clerk called the provincial health department, just to make sure that everything was all right. It wasn't: the health department knew of no such man as Rensburg. Neither did any other government department. The clerk called the cops...
...Neither Hal Ulen nor Tiger coach Howie Stepp will pay much about the contest. Both need a win tonight, as upper-bracket standing in the Eastern Intercollegiate League is at stake. Princeton will have the benefit of being at home in its spanking new Dillon pool--the most ultra-modern dixiecup in the east. The Crimson, on the other hand, has a somewhat better record this season and possibly the edge in material...
...trying its own complaint Giannini seemed to take it for granted that he would get no favorable decision. But neither A.P. nor Eccles thought that the hearing was any more than a sparring round. The fight to the finish would probably be in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...pretty." He signed a note to one creature: "The most respectful servant of your Sovereign Indifference." He feigned passion, and strained for it, but could seldom find it. Later he was to admit that "I only know how to tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with you than be on the right side even with the whole Academy-and [Anatole] France would, too. Indeed, it would...