Word: dishonestly
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...working with television for eleven months, Eddie Cantor admitted to Variety that he liked it, although it had some tricky moments: "Television is murder on the phony. Those brutal cameras, those revealing closeups, are tougher than the Kefauver committee. TV exposes hypocrisy, insincerity, anything that's faked and dishonest. That television screen in the living room tells you more about a man's insides than the X-ray machine in a doctor's office. When you've been tested in television's tube, mister...
...Kingfish owlishly taking his Army medical exam) are expertly staged and played. Despite a protest from the directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People* that such shows "tend to strengthen the conclusions among uninformed or prejudiced people that Negroes ... are inferior, lazy, dumb and dishonest," the TV Amos 'n' Andy seems set for a long and profitable run. Commercials: unobtrusive filmed spots in praise of Blatz beer...
...ailing Lee-who has to be carried to Assembly sessions-resigned his office in protest. Corruption last week had become a major issue in war-torn South Korea: the National Assembly, like Lee, was sick of President Syngman Rhee's dishonest underlings. Latest scandal: embezzlement of some $800,000 in National Defense Corps funds...
...Nevertheless, "the Kazakhstan athletes determinedly rejected Bekbayev's proposal. They continued to strive for first place honestly, without machinations, as Soviet athletes should." In fact, the outraged Alma Ata goalie kicked the ball into his own goal "in order to attract the attention of the stadium to the dishonest deal...
...court for booking, the players seemed shamed and remorseful. That part of the story was grimly familiar, too. Said Prosecutor Hogan, whose men had been working on the case for seven weeks: "I fervently wish that any person who might be so tempted could have seen these stupid and dishonest young men as they admitted their guilt. Tears, remorse, self-reproach and scalding thoughts of the perpetual heartache and disgrace ... all of this was too late...