Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thorpe, in turn, blamed his cold on the "bogus" Cambridge weather. The South Carolina resident said he had troubleadjusting to the climate here. But he added thatthe rumor that he is responsible for the coldepidemic is "a vicious...
...five coup attempts against the President, may have called in his debts last week. When it became clear that Aquino wanted to keep her friend Arroyo in the Cabinet -- and to shunt Ramos into a less strategic post, or perhaps even an ambassadorship -- the general balked. Amid a sudden rumor that loyal generals would stage a coup if Arroyo was retained, Aquino relented. "If Cory had her choice, as she used to," said a Western analyst in Manila, "she would have kept Joker on and kicked Ramos upstairs. But to her dismay, she found out she could do neither...
...back channels of power. Her sources are mainly books, articles and public documents about the connections among anti- Castro Cuban refugees and anti-Communist activists in the U.S. Government. The ties -- clear, confusing and some crazy enough to be true -- are there, as the Iran-contra hearings disclosed. Veracity, rumor, deceit and braggadocio are hard to separate. "To spend time in Miami is to acquire a certain fluency in cognitive dissonance" is Didion's evaluation of her experience. Translated from the Latinate, this means she could not make sense out of the town. To compensate, she relies on her feel...
...years. Those Soviets have come down with some fascinating reports, such as the discovery that after three months 250 miles up in space, they are so attuned that they can see with the naked eye ships at sea, tanks gathering on a field and, so rumor has it, even submarines under the surface of some ocean areas...
...works and even finished. An inventory of his literary effects failed to back the claim. Fox offers a number of admittedly shaky theories, among them that the manuscript was stolen by a former lover or that Capote stashed it in an undisclosed safe-deposit box or, according to one rumor, in a locker at the Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Depot. It is more likely, the editor adds, that he destroyed the missing chapters. Gerald Clarke, author of the upcoming biography Capote, points out that the writer set very high standards for himself. "He wanted to do for American high society...