Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of the rigged program. Most of them involve prizes and/or money. Person to Person didn't and doesn't. But it isn't even "vaguely" rigged. I yield to no one in my admiration for Mr. Stanton, but this is really a little too much...
...apartment in the city, a home at Valley Forge). Result: Stassen became one of the most soundly defeated Republican candidates in Philadelphia history-433,298 to 227,742. Said Childe Harold: Philadelphians had not voted against him, but merely shown "their unwillingness at this time to accept my program." Cried he: "I'll never give up my participation in political affairs...
...turned his attention to the businessmen, assuring them too that Cairo had no intention of fusing Syria's currency with Egypt's softer one. Next day Amer appealed to the peasants. "Nasser," he said, as he doled out 200 land deeds under Syria's land-reform program, "knows your aspirations and your pains because he has lived your lives...
...asked him to let me go on the program honestly, without receiving help. He said that was impossible. I would not have a chance to defeat Stempel. He also told me that giving help to quiz contestants was a common practice and merely a part of show business. Perhaps I wanted to believe him. He also stressed the fact that by appearing on a nationally televised program, I would be doing a great service to the intellectual life, to teachers and to education in general by increasing public respect...
...Thousands were from schoolchildren and students. All expressed their faith in me, their dedication to knowledge. I could not bear to betray that faith and hope. I felt that I carried the whole burden of the honor of my profession. And so I made a statement on the Garroway program the next morning that I knew of no improper activities on Twenty One and that I had received no assistance. I was, of course, very foolish. I was incredibly naive. I couldn't understand why Stempel should want to proclaim his own involvement. In a sense I was like...