Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard a rumor at the time concerning the illustrious MIT professor (and language-maven) Noam Chomsky. According to anonymous sources (i.e. my imagination), Chomsky circulated a devastating manifesto warning of a universal linguistic apocalypse if Harvard allowed its department to dissolve into oblivion. Needless to say, as I flipped through the current Courses of Instruction, the Linguistics department was still there...
...this talk -- and it was very loud in the Russian capital last week -- arises not out of the usual Moscow rumor mill but from the country's desperate need for explanations. Worried Russians are struggling to understand why there is such an obvious, crashing contrast between what Yeltsin says about the nasty little war in Chechnya and what everyone knows is really happening in the secessionist North Caucasus republic...
...married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the King, in what many perceived as an attempt to cleanse his tarnished image. However, only a few months after the newlyweds kissed steamily at the MTV Video Music Awards, gossip columnists buzzed that the marriage would soon be nullified, a rumor the Jacksons deny...
During the summer before my eighth grade year, rumors swirled around Belmont that a 6'5" youngster named Asa Palmer was coming. The rumor mill said that Asa had a lineage any basketball coach would salivate over--a brother who was a freshman at Duke and a brother who was a 7'1" center for the Utah Jazz...
...rumor mill turned out to be right. Asa was six-five and did have one brother at Duke and one in the NBA. He was a pretty good basketball player, a little uncoordinated nonetheless, but clearly he had potential...