Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corner. The forces of Steve Case, who pays $3,000 a month for the Drudge Report, moved Wednesday to have the suit thrown out on the grounds that they cannot be held responsible for its content. If that motion succeeds, the Web will remain a safe haven for rumor, gossip and innuendo, but Drudge could still be personally liable for what he actually said...
...have only one mild word of protest. I am not, as you have twice stated in your columns, the original, or part-original, of Larry in Maugham's The Razor's Edge. I can stand a good deal of kidding from my friends, but this rumor has poisoned my life for the past six months, and I wish it would die as quickly as possible. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Santa Monica, Calif...
...Rumors flew of strange influenza-like diseases affecting animals, even moose, according to the pandemic's chronicler, Alfred W. Crosby Jr. One rumor turned out to be true--disturbingly so for anyone familiar with the subsequent history of influenza research and the recent Hong Kong outbreak. Farmers in 1918 discovered that something was making their pigs very sick, with high fevers and bad coughs. No such pig flu had ever been noticed before 1918, but every fall thereafter an influenza-like illness attacked the nation's hog population. In 1928 a researcher from the Rockefeller Institute, Richard E. Shope, went...
...denounced Drudge for alleging on Today that Lewinsky possessed "an item of underwear with presidential semen on it" as well. Drudge had spoken of a "piece of clothing," but according to a transcript of the show he did not say "underwear." Two days earlier, in a column criticizing widespread rumors, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper cited a rumor of "semen-stained underwear Lewinsky kept." Roeper says he cannot recall where he heard reports of semen-stained underwear, but that it was "definitely broadcast, not print...
...collects stuffed animals and still lives at home, but he may be the toughest skater ever to enter the rink. He's tougher than Todd Eldredge, tougher than the Russians, tougher than Tonya Harding. Consider: the big rumor in Canada says that last summer Elvis Stojko, figure skater, 5 ft. 7 in., 158 lbs., got into a bar brawl with Eric Lindros, goonish hockey star, 6 ft. 4 in., 236 lbs.--and that Lindros got the short end of the stick. Never mind that everyone denies it happened. The point is, people believe it might have happened. It's like...