Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long last, this week the Air Force released pictures and a brief description of its F-100 "air superiority fighter," which has been the subject of well-informed gossip for more than a year. Named the Super-Sabre by its builder, North American Aviation Inc., it is described as "the U.S. Air Force's first operational jet fighter to exceed the speed of sound in level flight." This cautious wording is intended to head off protests from North American's competitors, especially Douglas Aircraft Co., whose F4D (built for the Navy, not the Air Force) is claimed...
According to West Coast air gossip, the F-100 is a sweet plane to fly. One test pilot who was flying it for the first time radioed back to earth: "If I were ten years older, this plane would be a great substitute for sex." It exceeded the speed of sound on its first test flight. So far it has logged more than 100 hours of flight, and very few bugs have shown up. North American claims that it is eight months ahead of its schedule, and can go into full production in three more months...
Seventeen-year-old Tom Lee is a quiet, sensitive "off horse" at a particularly muscular and conformist school; he lives, furthermore, under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make...
...gang bent on smearing Miguel Aleman, go ahead. That's what a free press is for, isn't it? But how do you know about those gaieties of Aleman and his pals? Did you have sleuths sneak in on them, or are you satisfied with broadcasting dirty gossip ? Why get so incensed because Aleman is good-looking...
Contrary to advance gossip, Churchill kept a firm grip on all the powers and responsibilities of Prime Minister, and Anthony Eden, due to return from his convalescence at month's end, stuck to his Foreign Secretary's post. Shelved, if not abandoned, was the much-bruited plan to elevate Heir Apparent Eden to Deputy P.M. and lighten Sir Winston's load. But until they get the doctor's reports on how Torydom's Big Two are bearing up, Britons are taking no bets that the reshuffling is finished...