Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nations do not ordinarily destroy their own vessels, even if locked up in foreign ports, unless they expect that war is close at hand. In Washington the rumor was rife that the Axis was preparing to declare war on the U. S. Yet to many Americans the news of sabotage and seizure seemed not to come as a great shock, or as a fearsome step toward war, but with the feeling "It's about time...
Second act: Alarmed by a rumor that the U.S.S. Omaha was coming to Liberia, 15 German citizens packed up and left by fishing boat for the French Ivory Coast. According to Monrovian rumor, they did not stop running until they got to Hamburg. Crowed President Barclay Biblically: "The wicked flee when no man pursueth...
...wrong man to trust with a taxpayer's dollar. One day last week Republican Congressmen burst out of a party caucus as if they had seen a ghost, blurted to reporters: "John Taber's in there making a speech for Roosevelt." Mr. Taber calmly confirmed the rumor, furthermore gave notice that he didn't want any unnecessary strings tied to the $7,000,000,000 Lend-Lease appropriation for the President. Mr. Roosevelt was the very man, implied Mr. Taber, to trust with $7,000,000,000, especially if the money was to fight Hitler...
...hours the exultant German High Command issued claims of having sunk 224,000 tons of British shipping, left the world to speculate on how long the job had taken. Moreover, Britain's ship losses were already running at a ruinous 350,000 tons a month, and rumor in London had reported that 600 new submarines would take to the sea lanes with spring...
Doubting the rumor that the Russians are cutting off their oil supply to Germany, Professor Karpovitch stated that he does not believe Russia is strong enough, or in a good enough position either from an economic or a military point of view to risk an open break as yet. "The Russo-Finish war proves to me Stalin's military strength, and all signs point to disorganization and scarcity from the economic side," he concluded...