Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years ago in Venezuela, just the rumor of revolutionary new steroid tests sent U.S. musclemen stampeding back to the airport. But, as expressed by Ohio Hammer Thrower Jud Logan, the mood has calmed. "I like to be tested," he said, after a Pan Am record throw of 253 ft. 5 in. "I like things fair." From the tiny Utah archer Denise Parker, 13, who won a gold medal, to the statuesque Costa Rican swimmer Silvia Poll, 16, teenage girls were the fairest of them all. The daughter of a German businessman who made his way to Costa Rica through...
...imported brand in the U.S., apparently has provoked envious wholesalers of rival brands to resort to some below-the- beer-belly tactics. Last week one of Corona's U.S. importers, Barton Beers, revealed that suds fans in the West and Midwest have been shaken by a rumor that the brand is contaminated with urine. Barton's managers thought they had stopped up the source of the malicious tale last month, when they settled a suit against a Reno-based distributor of Miller and Heineken whose employees were charged with spreading the story. But the rumor kept foaming up, which prompted...
...much of the rumor, mystery and myth swirling around his name will North's testimony dispel? Not all, almost certainly. By arrangement with the lawyers who so long counseled North to say nothing, the committees intend to limit their questioning of the Marine lieutenant colonel, at least initially, to four days. Yet ten times four days would scarcely suffice to explore every secret scheme in which North is said to have put his finger during his five years on the National Security Council staff, to unravel all the private networks he hammered together to carry out secret policies, to track...
...Monmouth College, where she had played basketball on scholarship, and later became Whitney's personal assistant. They share a North Jersey flat with a view of Manhattan. Because of their easy intimacy, the tattle mill has ground out the story that they are lovers. Both women shrug off the rumor. Says Robyn: "I tell my family, 'You can hear anything on the streets, but if you don't hear it from me, it's not true.' " Whitney also alludes to family: "My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about...
...fine early frost. He could be a cousin of his fellow Rocky Mountain resident Robert Redford. Then look closer and find a superhero's face as it might have been drawn by Wallace Wood for a Mad comic- book parody. The jawline, a shade too prominent, entertains the rumor of buffoonery. The smile is one of unwarranted self-assurance. His eye squint seems not to have registered that the world sees him differently: as a preening oaf. With every gesture he is screaming, Help! I'm a clown trapped in a leading man's body...