Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lots of scuttlebutt still swirls in the locker room. One oft-mentioned rumor has Restic and Yale coach Carm Cozza both jointly stepping down and ending their 23-year rivalry together, but Restic has denied the existence of such an arrangement...
There were plenty of little shockers in store for me that weekend: the fireplaces in the Wigglesworth common rooms I visited; the rumor of a swimming pool in Adams House; the guy I saw leaving one of my hosts' bedroom one morning. (Did people...do that? Here...
...King and the scheduled trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid the "three Bs," meaning the rich domains of Brentwood...
...soft spot for Yeltsin, who faced down the tanks of the old regime in August 1991. Their enthusiasm began to fade only when he successfully elbowed his way into Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin office later that year. This week the besieged President is a populist hero again. The Moscow rumor mill churned out one pro-Yeltsin story after another -- and no one much cared if they were highly exaggerated or totally wrong. How turncoat Vice President Alexander Rutskoi pinched a copy of Yeltsin's unfinished decree on "special rule" and gave it to the opposition. How Constitutional Court chairman Valeri...
Aiming to "lay to rest the rumor that Adams is becoming sober," Professor of English Marjorie Garber introduced Phillips, who has appeared at the Helmsley Palace and on a variety of talk shows...