Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin may have been leaking some inside information. It is just as likely that he was merely repeating some gossip in military circles. Radioactive clouds have been discussed since Hiroshima...
...Brensham, all the thieves and poachers are lovable rogues, all the women quiver with massive bursts of laughter, all the intellectuals are wise, all the drunkards poetic. Natural eccentricity and tolerance leave no place for nasty gossip and nagging. The vicar keeps live bait in the church font and nesting-boxes over the porch ("My dear fellows," says he to his wardens, "can you think of anything less sacrilegious than a pair of spotted flycatchers...
...divide the day-long session in half, the people spent two hours over the dinner table heaped with meat, beans, salads, brown bread, pie, and coffee. Here they exchanged the latest gossip, talked about taxes, fire protection, and the price of milk. Then they went back upstairs to the meeting hall, the moderator called the meeting to order again and election of officers took place...
TIME'S SUMMATION OF UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESIDENTIAL SWAP BOILS DOWN TO UNDERSTANDABLE STATEMENT A MASS OF FACTS AND GOSSIP THAT HAD CONFUSED NEW MEXICO PUBLIC. . . . HULLABALOO RAISED AGAINST TIME'S STORY BY UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS COINCIDENTALLY FOLLOWS BOARD OF REGENTS' STATEMENT THAT NEW PRESIDENT POPEJOY WOULD BE GIVEN FREE HAND IN SELECTING HIS FACULTY FOR NEXT YEAR...
...editor responsible for everything his paper prints? Certainly. Editors often act, however, as if this responsibility did not extend to syndicated columnists. Unlike the rest of the staff, the absentee pundit rarely has to prove or go bail for his facts, or gossip, no matter how irresponsible or erroneous...