Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been particularly poignant. At one point about two years ago, the local utility shut off the gas, forcing the faculty and student body to make do with space heaters brought from home or donated by friends of the college. Another time, food services were discontinued. On paydays, an unfounded rumor among the staff was that the first 20 employees to reach the bank stood a chance of cashing their checks; the rest would bounce...
While Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Isabelle Adjani are filming Ishtar in New York City, everyone has taken a vow of silence. In the circumstances, this may have made more sense than taking a vow of poverty or chastity, but it put the rumor mill into overdrive. Worst was the word that the breathtaking Adjani was playing a young man. Such casting would have been a high offense against Gallic gifts, as Adjani proved anew in a recent photo session modeling her favorite clothes from the collections of such designers as Paris' Azzedine Alaia. But Adjani admirers, fear...
Quickly, a picture of bumbling emerged. It turned out that late last week the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince sent an "alert" to the State Department, reporting rumors that Duvalier had fled the country. Haiti is perennially a hotbed of gossip, and inaccurate reports had already generated a premature celebration on Thursday night in Miami, where one person was killed. The message thus could hardly be taken as sounding the final, definitive toll for the Duvalier dynasty, but the State Department relayed the "alert" nonetheless to the White House Situation Room for the National Security Council. According to State...
With only days to go before this week's presidential election, Marcos did not sound like an indomitable incumbent. Miffed at press reports casting doubt on his wartime record and personal finances, he angrily denounced those "now ! engaged in rumor-mongering and black propaganda." He suggested that the reports emanated from the "dirty tricks department" of Challenger Corazon Aquino's "desperate campaign." Late in the week, Marcos announced that the military had uncovered a plot to assassinate him while he was on a campaign trip to Iloilo City...
...countrymen would argue with that assessment. The mood in Manila, thick with political tension ever since Marcos issued his surprise election call, grew even more claustrophobic last week with the latest campaign soundings. The rumor mills that grind endlessly in the city's crowded coffeehouses increased their outpourings of speculation. Fears flew that Marcos might try to cancel the balloting, a possibility that he has never quite rejected. Opponents of the President were worried that he intended to rig the election contest even more blatantly than other votes have been altered in the past. If that happened, they warned darkly...