Word: suspectedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contestant's known areas of knowledge or ignorance, but the possibility of more blatant hanky-panky than that seemed remote. Too much money was at stake, too many people were involved, and if one show went sour-so the argument ran-they would all be suspect...
More than $24 million in time and talent that is scheduled for quizzes this fall was suddenly as suspect as a hound dog with feathers on its face. The air was full of rumors about other shows, involving the most spectacular brain athletes. The audience was just about ready to believe that a Dotto spokesman was talking for every quiz show on the air when he said: "Look, this may be a quiz business to the housewives of America, but to us, it's the entertainment business. There's no reason for the public to know what happens...
...performers (including a French poodle) go through their paces with well-drilled precision. Only Gene Lyons gives a natural, restrained performance; the others are considerably exaggerated. The general consistency of approach in the acting, though, leads me to suspect that this production is almost 100-per cent director Robert Finkel's show, down to the last, over-rehearsed twitch or glance...
...ballot, with the rebels as well as most of Chamoun's men voting solidly for him. General Chehab received 42 votes-just two short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Beirut's Independent Raymond Edde polled a surprising ten votes from Lebanese Christians who had begun to suspect that Chehab's election now would amount to a rebel victory. Edde, respected son of a former President, had himself proposed Chehab's name early in the revolt, but insisted that his own withdrawal now would be "to surrender our democracy to the Sixth Fleet." On the second...
...capital city of Amman last week, where young King Hussein shakily reigns with the backing of his army and his devoted Bedouins, swift raids by spike-helmeted police rounded up all known Nasser sympathizers, as well as some 200 suspect politicians and civil servants. Who could be sure of anyone, any more? Seventy officers of the King's army are in jail, including Hussein's former close companion, Colonel Rahdi Abdullah. Anyone caught listening to Radio Cairo or to the vicious noise of the clandestine "Jordan People's Radio" was hustled off to prison...