Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sunday was almost a Xerox copy of Saturday, with police vs. occupier and police vs. blockader battles raging around the plant periphery and on the main road, while we sat and talked and bided our time. Late in the afternoon a rumor arrived on the wind that five women had been found inside the cement mixing plant inside the plant. (The first successful, if temporary, occupation) and the authorities would bring the prisoners out on a bus, perhaps through Rocks Road. When two columns of state troopers and guardsmen came tromping down in front of a big yellow...
...landscape in this play is a tiny Russian village in the year 1905, where civilization is, at best, a rumor. Gorky populates the canvas of his drama with wife beaters, sodden vodkaholics, corrupt bureaucrats, venal merchants, sanctimonious hypocrites, neurotically damaged children and disaffected wives who have been churlishly and brutally scorned...
When Magruder said "Here!" he was referring to the place he kept his derogatory information on the Democrats. Whenever he had called me in to verify some rumor about, for example, Jack Anderson, it was from there that he withdrew whatever he already had on the matter. The purpose of the second Watergate break-in was to find out what O'Brien had of a derogatory nature about us, not for us to get something on him or the Democrats...
...still that time of year. Tonight, the National Hockey League quarterfinal round opens, and the fight for Lord Stanley's mug resumes. Rumor has it that a league champion will be crowned before Commencement...
...movies like "Windows" and "Cruising" inform us that gay people are pathetic, or savage, or both. To the Federal government and the majority of states, homosexual acts are an "abomination". To parents and friends homosexuality is an accusation, never a reality. It is the lowest of insults, a shadowy rumor which must not stain us at any cost. But proving heteroxexuality takes hard work. After all, you never know...