Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobbies, where rumors flickered through the delegates like wind in tall grass, the word had been that Indiana's Charlie Halleck was the choice. But if Halleck had been promised anything, it had been only a hunting license. In Room 808, the license was promptly torn up. Neither Arthur Vandenberg nor Dulles could accept Halleck's isolationist record as House Majority Leader. Other politicians looked in. Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert came to plead the case of Senator John Bricker. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith (backed by Driscoll) urged the cause of Harold Stassen...
...forward, looked slow and dull. Without trying to be funny, Jersey Joe (real name: Arnold Cream) supplied the comedy. He wiped his nose with one hand, while pulling up his pants with the other. He did little dance steps on India-rubber legs. Entire minutes went by in which neither fighter touched the other. The only thing that saved it from being the worst heavyweight championship fight in history was the eleventh round...
...Millikan still sticks to his original long-held theory that cosmic rays come from the "annihilation of matter" (atoms turning into energy) somewhere out in space. He has elaborate evidence to prove his theory. The gathered cosmic raymen did not try to argue with their dean; neither did they agree with him. Cosmic rays are a baffling and complex phenomenon. In spite of years of concentrated work, the experts do not even agree about what they are, much less about what causes them...
...pain an inevitable part of childbirth? One grin-&-bear-it school of doctors says it is.* But the search for ways to relieve the mother's pain is as old as civilization. The ancient Egyptians tried herbs, the Chinese opium. Neither worked very well. The coming of anesthesia more than a century ago did not help much. General anesthetics such as chloroform and ether made the patient unconscious, and thus unable to cooperate with the doctor and with nature's attempts to push out the baby...
...Ladder contains not one touch of profanity. It is also written with surprising restraint. The Smile is the story of a clown, Auguste, who throws up his career to find true bliss in just being himself. "To be yourself, just yourself, is a great thing . . . You try neither to be one thing nor another, neither great nor small, neither clever nor maladroit . . ." Auguste's search for his true identity is a dangerous quest and it ends fatally, but not before he has discovered that "perhaps he was all right just as he was . . . The mistake he had made...