Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a location at Krugersdorp, a mining town 20 miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
...chair was vacant at the head table last week when 350 Washington clubwomen gathered in the Mayflower Hotel for a luncheon meeting of the Community Chest. Over the fried chicken, a whisper spread among the guests. Finally Mrs. Henry Gichner rose and in a trembling voice confirmed the rumor: Miss Helen Hokinson had been "unavoidably detained . . . We have gotten the news that [her] plane has crashed ... It should be an example to all of us because . . . she was corning to help...
...days the welcome news had swooped and skittered on the horizon like a distant barn swallow. This week, rumor became fact. Bethlehem Steel Co., the nation's second greatest steel producer, had come to terms with Philip Murray's striking C.I.O. United Steelworkers...
There is even a rumor abroad that Massachusetts will widen part of the abomination which takes the traveller from Worcester to the state line. A four-lane throughway from here to Gotham is almost in the realm of distant possibility...
...Them Stew." While fans tried to adjust to the latest milestone of the little girl who grew up so fast, the gossips tried to piece out fragments of feverish rumor. In Manhattan, Crooner Johnny Johnston, 33, stoutly denied any romantic involvement with Shirley. In Hollywood, his wife. Cinemactress Kathryn Grayson, 26, admitted that she had exchanged harsh words with Shirley about Johnston but, she added, all that was over now. Both Johnston and his wife accused Professional Golfer Joe Kirkwood Jr., 28, who plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston...