Word: hearsay
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...people of Pyongyang cheered, waving South Korean flags, British flags, Chinese Nationalist flags and improvised U.N. flags which had been designed from hearsay. At Seoul, which had been devastated by both the retreating Communists and the U.N. assault, the people had shown a restrained enthusiasm for their liberators. The people of Pyongyang were staging the most spontaneous demonstration seen in any Asiatic city since the World War II liberation of Shanghai from the Japanese...
...pretty 21-year-old nurse named Ma Aye Mya (Miss Cool and Pleasant) told the court that the American doctor had forced his nurses to enter into sexual relations. Miss Cool and Pleasant apparently had only hearsay to support this charge. She said that Seagrave had avoided her after she rejected his advances. Defense witnesses for the ailing, 53-year-old physician firmly denied that Seagrave had ever molested his nurses. They further testified that he had been friendly towards Burma's government and army...
...Commissioner of Education added that "hearsay statements" should be rejected by reporting officials, but that "treasonable or subversive acts or statements outside the school are as much a basis for dismissal as are similar activities in school or in the presence of school children...
...less certain value were statements which Ronnie based chiefly on hearsay. Samples: the Huks are in regular radio contact with Peking; the Philippine Communist Party is masterminded by three unnamed but top-level officials in Quirino's government...
Problem of Proof. As the hearing recessed, the evidence against Lattimore was entirely based on hearsay, as Budenz himself admitted. But it had come from a man whose testimony could not lightly be dismissed. He had been one of the witnesses who named Alger Hiss as a Communist, had exposed Gerhart Eisler as the Soviets' top espionage agent in the U.S., had been used by the Government as its star witness against the eleven Communist leaders. Born in Indianapolis 58 years ago, Budenz grew up in the Roman Catholic faith, but soon after his graduation from law school...