Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumor that one must donate a gym to sit between the 25-yard lines, Page added, "It's not too far from wrong...
...Baveysi we have the initiative and the Iraqis have been regularly falling back." Iranian sources said last week that most of the 1 million residents of the Khuzistan cities under Iraqi attack had reportedly fled either to central Iran or to nearby mountain refuges. One farfetched rumor had it that if the Iraqis captured Ahwaz, the Iranians would then open the gates of the 666-ft.-high dam on the Dez River near Dezful, thereby flooding much of the low-lying plains of Khuzistan...
...Zuckerman's letter perpetuates the rumor that the escort car is unavailable from 12 midnight to 1 am nightly. Like most rumors, it has some basis in fact. The escort car at one time went to the Medical School on specific nights when student workers were transported back to the Cambridge Campus at the end of their shifts. Since their shifts ended shortly before midnight, the car was generally back in Cambridge and free by 12:15. In an effort to 'fine tune' our service to the greater need of a greater number of students, we have discontinued the Medical...
...confusion resulted when the ball went out of bounds off one of the Brown players. As one referee signaled Harvard throw-in, Scalise turned around to signal some of his substitutes into the game. But the other official ruled play on, and rumor has it that Brown's flashy forward Frances Fusco scored from the right side of the penalty area. No matter how it happened, it went into the scorer's book as a goal, and a win, for the Bruins...
Proposition 2 1/2--the very phrase launches local government officials into paroxysms of fear, prompting tirades on the death of city services and eliciting equally loud battle cries from supporters. Not since the airplanes started flying over houses near Logan Airport have so many people gotten angry. There's a rumor going around, in fact, that if all the money that Citizens for Limited Taxation and its opponents have spent pushing their causes were funnelled into local treasuries, they might be able to cut property taxes next year...