Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 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...
Last week the American Council on Education made an angry, 100-page attack on U.S. "diploma mills," which have run a carefree con game around the globe for more than a century. Trouble is that the mills are blossoming as never before. At least 200 crooked schools in 37 states...
Jones and the Giants know that this is the week that may decide the three-way pennant fight: they play two games with Milwaukee, three with Los Angeles. Sad Sam is ready. "The arm's been ten years hurting," he says. "Now I've got control of this...
Balanced Judgment. In Louisville, charged with passing four counterfeit $100 bills. Gambler Eugene T. Luker testified that he won the money with crooked dice.
With all the assurance of a man operating a crooked roulette wheel, Nikita Khrushchev last week in Moscow proclaimed his confidence that the Geneva conference "will be successful." Folksy as ever, Nikita went on to explain: "We have a Russian saying that goes something like this: to achieve something difficult...