Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sobolev dismissed the U.S. evidence as mere hearsay-odna baba skazala ("an old woman said . . ."). Before the voting on the Russian, U.S. and Swedish resolutions began, he jubilantly declared that if his own was defeated, he would call for an emergency session of the General Assembly. Then, using Russia's 84th veto, he killed off the U.S. resolution calling for a U.N. force. Only he and Sweden voted for the Swedish resolution, only...
...prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions of Aubrey's lusty century...
...CRIMSON allows its erstwhile cartoonist, Harvard's most impoverished graduate, to speak out. While the validity of his conclusions is open to doubt, his courage must be admired. It is interesting to note that he did no research for his little epic, and bases his facts entirely on hearsay. Mr. Royce does not drink. Not much, that is. Well, not a great deal. Mr. Royce was raised on an apple farm, but ran away from home when he was a boy. He served two years in the Army and five years at Harvard, and has not worked since he graduated...
Lobbying is also among NSA activity, but what bills are lobbied for or against, and who decides on such policy, is again in the realm of the vague hearsay...
From the first days of seafaring man, the shark has been dreaded as a killer. The dread was based more on hearsay than actual experience. Few men had ever been attacked by them; fewer still lived to tell the tale. Advice on what to do in the presence of a lurking shark was flatly contradictory: one school held that the swimmer should hold still and keep quiet; the other said churn wildly and shout. During World War II thousands of seamen and downed airmen came within reach of the shark's sinister jaws. With air traffic over open water...