Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plymouth has switched from aluminum to cast-iron pistons, is using more of Chrysler's new Amola steel-a high test metal using no imported alloys. Their prices still unannounced (rumor: a $100 boost), Plymouths come in eleven body styles (13 last year), and such defense-conscious colors as Airwing Grey, Battalion Beige, Artillery Green. Horsepower is up from 87 to 95 with no up in gas consumption...
...some reason, Ward, an ice-veined 28-year-old Northwesterner who earns a livelihood as secretary of a Spokane "Boosters" Club, was unpopular with the predominantly Omaha gallery. According to widespread rumor, he had made disparaging comments about the Omaha Field Club course. Their dander up, touchy townsmen, 3,000 strong, booed Ward's shots, tried to rattle him as though he were a baseball pitcher. It got so bad President Pierce of the U.S. Golf Association interrupted the match, appealed for better sportsmanship...
...lasted 22 years. In Paris, the mob had captured the Bastille. But in the countryside, "at first there was a sort of general shudder of fear. The long-established royal authority . . . seemed shaken; and . . . it was the only form of authority [the peasants] could understand." Suddenly there was a rumor: "Here are the brigands! They're coming to burn our forests and cut our wheat! On guard and arms!" All over France the peasants armed themselves and started beating the countryside for brigands who were never found. In the Midi they still talk about I'annado...
...rumor rose that he really ran a sweatshop of hacks. He was at work by dawn, silent at meals, neither drinking nor smoking; only the theater could keep him out of bed after 8 p.m. When he died 5,000 people were at his funeral...
...last week it seemed that the storm warning had finally gone up. Though U.S. authorities denied it, Shanghai rumor insisted that the Marines would move out by the end of the month. For the taipans it was the end of Shanghai...