Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, rumor had it that O'Neill was planning to take a shot at her father-in-law Tip's seat in the House of Representatives. The National Women's Political Caucus, looking for a female candidate for the Eighth Congressional race, asked O'Neill to run. According to her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III, former lieutenant governor, she did seriously consider taking up the offer. "She's the most electable O'Neill," he says. "She's throughly liberal with a sense of humor, and that stands out in a crowd...
Quickly then the rumor spread that Archer Daniels Midland Co., the tank owner, was going to paint over the image. Just as quickly a "save the tank" movement got going. Finally a company spokesman announced there would be no painting until things quieted down in Fostoria. The company position was that rust stains, under the nighttime security lights, account for the image. The tank was just put up in July, and a primer was applied to its exterior. If it is to last, it will have to be painted by winter, Christ...
...there were occasional scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
...girl's hair and changed her clothes. Some are funny, like the student survey that "discovers" that green M&M's are an aphrodisiac, and some maliciously lead to racial stereotyping. Brunvand, a professor of English at the University of Utah, sees little humor or truth in the 1980 rumor that Southeast Asian immigrants in California were capturing and eating pets. Yet many people want to believe such tales. "I could run ads with the Super Bowl broadcast saying that the latest hot legends are pure folklore," says Brunvand, "and still some people . . . would pass on the story itself rather...
...cents a call. The subsidized price of a large loaf of bread is about 2 cents. But for the majority of Egyptians, whose per capita income is $600 a year, subsidies are just enough to keep them from penury. Last February national security police rioted after the rumor spread that their hitch would be extended from three years to four. Reason: the conscripts earn less than $10 a month, on which many of them must support families. In 1977, when former President Anwar Sadat tried to cut food subsidies, widespread rioting almost brought down his government. "We learned from...