Word: rumored
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Simmons said that when girls strive to be “nice,” much of their natural anger is “driven underground.” She argued that the eye-rolling, silent treatment and rumor spreading among adolescent girls is treated as catty “developmental” behavior and most commonly described as a “phase...
...Rumor has it that you’re leaving Harvard. Can you confirm or deny...
...fading light, two flatbed trucks trundle slowly up the highway from Basra to Baghdad, bearing a precarious cargo: a pair of Soviet-era T-52 tanks, their long gun barrels pointed defiantly at the sky. Rumor has it that Iraqi heavy armor is deliberately being moved around in full display to allay public concerns about the army's fighting capabilities. If that is indeed the intention, then the T-52s are being hauled in the wrong direction. The folks who most need that kind of reassurance are the citizens of Basra...
...these tough times, people are too busy playing other games - Spot the Shortest Petrol Queue, Pretend You're a Ruling Party Member to Get Food - to pay attention to this one. But there may be a way to get everyone out to the cricket ground. "We might spread a rumor that there's going to be free food," says one local wag. "Then we'll have the whole town there." Six World Cup matches are slated for Zimbabwe, but the British government (unlike its cricket officials) has led calls for a boycott of its imploding ex-colony. Zimbabwe has already...
...summer of 2001, six other women in Wuhan were attacked by a man with a knife, four of them fatally. The city's newspapers didn't cover the cases?they almost never write about unsolved crimes. But word spread rapidly through the local grapevine, and a rumor arose that the killer targeted his victims because they were dressed in red. "Everybody was so terrified of the Red Dress Killer," recalls a woman selling tomatoes in Wang's neighborhood, "that we started wearing a lot of blue...