Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator, Crump had dumped servile Tom Stewart, a politician with no great vote-getting appeal, in favor of a man with still less: an obscure, hill-country judge named John A. Mitchell. Stung into independence, Stewart ran anyway. But neither candidate was a match for hardworking, respected Congressman Estes Kefauver...
...paced his room in San Francisco's Hotel Stewart last week, Isaac Garrett Fox neither looked nor felt like a desperado. He was 53-a sallow, nervous man who wore eyeglasses and false teeth, and was growing bald. He had served eight years (1931-39) in Tennessee for bank robbery, and the thought of prison terrified him. But he was sick, out of work, and three weeks behind in his rent. That helped him make up his mind...
...woman who has enough money and still expects her husband to support her is nothing but a high-class prostitute," also went into the financial side of his marriage: "She is trying to blackmail me. I know the defendant to be a money-mad extortioner." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...
...liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor of his god, Ahura Mazda, and to the fact that he was "neither a liar nor an evildoer, neither I nor any of my family...
...Canadian Poet Stringer had the use of a bundle of material on Brooke collected by the late Richard Halliburton (The Royal Road to Romance), who was lost at sea in 1939 before he could make it into a book. Though sometimes heavyhanded, Red Wine of Youth is neither too reticent nor too worshipful to present Brooke as a human being...