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Word: rumored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another rumor has Sony as a potential DreamWorks partner. Certainly Sony chief John Calley and Spielberg have bonded personally: Calley is advising the director as he mulls over buying a yacht. But Calley says no corporate conversations are under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Spielberg | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...When I was growing up my mother always told a story. She came from a small town in Ireland...and there were people that lived opposite that had a mad daughter, and they always kept her locked upstairs to they only ever saw this face in the window. Rumor had it if you went to the family and were in their living room, that she would appear at the top of the stairs and shout "More bread or I'll appear," and they'd run up and feed her rather than have her come down and embarrass them. So this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Escape on the Word Train | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...United States, St. Patrick's Day is much more than a religious remembrance of a saint who lived over 1,500 years ago who drove the snakes from Ireland (rumor) and converted much of the island to Christianity (fact). Instead it has become a celebration of all things Irish, of a nation whose emigrants to this country produced, at least in part, over 45 million Irish-Americans living today. We sing of the "old country," talking lovingly about the light mists that caress her rolling green fields, dancing to her vibrant music traditional and modern, and celebrating this wondrous "Isle...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Remembering An Gorta Mor | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

TIME: How about law school? Is that something you've thought about? Or just another bad rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Monica Lewinsky Up Close | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...easy to determine that no one in their right mind would lie about them, then juxtaposing them with the latent skepticism that all students mindlessly direct toward the administration, and then coupling them with a bogus "computer program" whose workings are sufficiently ambiguous, you have just started a rumor that requires no more effort from you whatsoever. Before you can say "I'm not sure if it's true, but..." at least four hundred students will start looking for ways to cut those extra five people out of their blocking groups, destroying friendships and wreaking irreparable heartbreak all over Harvard...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Build Your Own Rumor Mill | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

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