Word: hearsays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grimly wait-&-see but unpanicked public gave no more than passing notice to half a dozen books on the implications of atomic warfare, was more curious about Frank Scully's mess of conjecture and hearsay on Behind the Flying Saucers. A more legitimate curiosity about six men on a raft in the Pacific elevated to best-sellerdom a rousing record of adventure in Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. In the midst of the new confrontation of East & West, books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent...
Modern history has no more dramatic scene than Wu's speech at Lake Success. The world heard only by dim and dignified hearsay of Hitler raging at statesmen who came to Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...
...made the claim, obviously based on hashed-over hearsay, that the Miunesota team threw the Purdue game of 1949 because it was mad at Bernio Bierman. I say this is hearsay for Mr. Bailey, as a member of the class of '50, would have been in Cambridge when the supposed incident with the sports-writer took place...
...month that Tibet has been under Chinese Red attack, much of the news from the roof of the world has come from yak-drivers, muleteers and porters. Their hearsay and gossip, picked up at Kalim-pong, India's gateway to Tibet, became grist for a notable rumor mill (see PRESS) that had Lhasa lost, the Dalai Lama in flight, his army destroyed, his lamaseries in turmoil...
...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...