Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also had troubles with the rumor mills. The company was badly stung last year when its new PCjr could not live up to expectations. Computer Retail News, a trade tabloid, now reports that a new version of IBM's popular PC may be released within the next month...
...book titled Up in Class, was so struck by the black-tie yuppies' dinner with no servants in attendance. "Everything I can see in the way of new manners is very ersatz and copied, very nostalgic for something they've gotten from old movies, from some hopeful rumor of a more distinguished period in which to live," says Hamilton. "They're just dressing up. They all love suspenders, art deco, fragments of an earlier grandeur, and that's the new conservatism. Reagan isn't the cause but just another symptom of the urge to find...
...Rumor has it that Hames Q. Wilson. Shattuck Professor of Government and one of the country's foremost experts on law and order, accepted part-time tenure at the University of California at Los Angeles because of a longtime affinity for scuba-diving...
There was a rumor in June, 1960 that there was going to be a meeting of the Central Committee. Dan Schorr was a CBS correspondent and he said to Khrushchev, Mr. Khrushchev, I want to go on holiday, but my office won't let me go because there's a rumor of a meeting of the Central Committee Could you tell me sir--this is not for a story--I just want to know if I can go on holiday...
Birnbach (Brown '78) bases her insights on more than rumor; she visited every campus in the book. Ducking into bars, attending the odd class, she sought students, professors and administrators, and distributed nine-page questionnaires. "I stayed in dorms," she declares in the tone of a war correspondent. "I ate cafeteria food every...