Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the dorm may be culturally diverse, MassHall residents have developed a reputation forbeing monolithic in one important regard: theirsilence. In fact, rumor has it that the incomingfirst-years placed in Mass Hall are students whoindicate on their rooming applications they arequiet people...
...Desire. Ward hasn't given any hearty indication that he wants to play in the National Football League. He's a projected second-or third-round choice in the NBA , and rumor has it wants to play basketball. Another rumor has him going to the Canadian Football League, whose style of play may better suit...
...loss of Green means the loss of an unusually frank and sincere voice in Mass. Hall. WE worry that his replacement won't match that standard--especially if, as rumor has it, that replacement is the Kennedy School's slick and polished Dean Albert Carnesale, whose handlers accompany him wherever he goes...
There is a rumor that the members of this theatrical company must actually be elected to their positions-no doubt a witty critique of bourgeois social conventions. The actors sometimes even pretend to be "representatives" of the human struggle against the meaninglessness of life. The audience cannot help but appreciate such divine commentary on the absurdity of the human condition...
...damage control succeeded in quelling the immediate ruckus. But as fast as the Kremlin spin controllers kill one rumor, another crops up. Lately, the persistence of these stories has provoked speculation, even among supporters, that perhaps there is a flicker of truth behind all the supposed disinformation...