Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long considered a potential successor. But a few months after Andropov's designation as party leader, Chernenko dropped from public view, ostensibly to battle a bout of pneumonia. When he failed to appear for the traditional May Day lineup atop the Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow's active rumor mills began to speculate that he had lost another behind-the-scenes power struggle with Andropov. But once the more than 300 members of the powerful Central Committee had retreated to their semiannual closed-door meeting last week, the official Soviet agency TASS revealed the dramatic news that none other than...
...kind of mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub) in his attempts to win the heart of Charles's sweetheart...
...inaccessibility of professors has long been a matter of concern for the Harvard community--students, faculty, and administration Consistently students complain, in the faculty says it is trying harder, and the administration assures everyone from concerned alumni to worried parents to prospective high school seniors that, contrary to rumor, the stellar cast of teachers is available to every student. In view of this fact, and the current alarm, nationwide, over the inferior quality of American teaching. I wonder how the Government Department can defend its vote not to promote one of its finest teachers...
...contrary to rumor...
After several months of relative inactivity following the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the Moscow rumor mill last week was once again grinding away. The first major items of interest concerned the state of health and whereabouts of Communist Party Leader Yuri Andropov, 68. Then, as if tales of an Andropov illness were not intriguing enough, the official Soviet news agency TASS set off a new round of speculation with a terse two-line communique announcing the promotion of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, to the post of First Deputy Premier...