Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stakes are too high and the industry too wise to conspire with contestants to control the outcome. But there are many roundabout ways to change the fate of any quiz whiz on the high-priced shows. In their desire to keep their audiences, many producers use odd methods both to keep and lose contestants. For a heretofore untold story of how they do it, and the answer to a question that has tickled the curiosity of millions of TV watchers, see TV & RADIO, The $60 Million Question...
While this was strange, Littlefield paid when he had last seen Parkman. He replied that it had been Friday at 1:30 p.m., whereupon Webster said that "that is the very time I paid him four-hundred and eighty three dollars and some odd cents. He grabbed it up without counting it and ran up, as fact as he could, two steps at a time, saying that he would go immediately to Cambridge and discharge the mortgage. I suppose he did, but I have not been over to the Registry of Deeds...
...whole, Hitchcock's casketful of stories is a routine job. Many tales are stale: a few are fine. One doubts whether he actually submitted them all for TV shows, but he obviously likes to collect odd and uncomfortable stories. Whether he should be encouraged to publish them is debatable; collections should not always be made public. One of the charming characters in his book, for instance, collects throats...
From this seemingly odd coincidence, scientists have developed a theory not only about the formation of the nebulae, but of the formation of the elements as well. Oppenheimer used this as a case in which analogy led to the discovery of "a code of identity" between seemingly unrelated phenomena...
...Tyrone Guthrie, an outstanding director, should believe in this play is a mystery, but he proves his ingenuity and does an enormous amount of work to cover the author's odd efforts with an engaging, amusing, decidely well-wrought surface. He and Mr. Slezak make delightful details out of nearly nothing--a gesture, a glance, or a footman...