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Word: concoctor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emetic "We." Academician Bergen Evans, an English professor at Northwestern who doubles as the question concoctor for The $64,000 Question, takes the easygoing view that language is what its users make of it. It is usually Critic Brown who is the first to cry Fowler. Both quick-witted, the two men also strike sparks with contrasting personalities: stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Wide-Awake Sleeper | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

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