Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called for a "sane course"-which in NASA bafflegab seems to mean the same program that has kept the U.S. lagging behind. Roy Johnson, head of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, could offer no better proposal than the creation of a "psychological warfare department" to "answer" Soviet space feats...
...week's end no flat answer had yet come. Van Doren was in hiding, having added nothing to a midweek wire to Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris that on the program he was "never assisted in any form." (Van Doren said that he had made the same statement to a New York county grand jury months ago.) His failure to respond to the subcommittee's invitation to testify had already caused NBC, which employs him at $50,000 a year as consultant and as a Today commentator, to suspend him. And many of the characters who had surrounded...
...seconded by baby-faced Artist James Snodgrass, 36. Last week Snodgrass dramatically opened a registered letter, postmarked May 10, 1957, which not only gave the questions for the May 13 show (Sample: "What are the names of the Seven Dwarfs?") but also the instructions for painfully spitting out the answers ("Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, pause-the grouchy one-Grumpy-Doc -pause-the bashful one!"). Snodgrass enjoyed winning so much that when he was instructed to fall before the mighty mind of Hank Bloomgarden (who later went on to win $98,500), he crossed up Twenty One, blurted the correct answer...
...such an atmosphere, fixing was epidemic. On CBS, testified a network spokesman, Dotto went crooked. So did For Love or Money (whose "dancing decimal machine" was rigged to chisel down the contestants' possible winnings). After a contestant reported he had been fed an answer, CBS even began to investigate The $64,000 Challenge (which was owned by a packaging firm controlled by CBS-TV President Lou Cowan). The network chucked all three shows between August 1958 and last January. But it has continued to ride with Name That Tune, though it publicly admits that some contestants are asked...
...Answer: Let them pay attention to social and moral relations and the problems involved...