Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge wave. This outrage in retaliation for that one and that in retaliation for still another, and a new one in retaliation for the latest before it, and still a newer in retaliation for that, another set aflame by the stories of refugees and another still by pure rumor, and another in retaliation for that and still another by rumor. The genius of India has ever been for myth, not rationality: and no man's reason may be expected to remain intact under the intricate chemistries of horror, heartbreak, revenge, the vertiginous contagion of mobs, a thousand years...
...Mere rumor, which runs at its wildest under such circumstances, is enough to dethrone reason; great terror, in a brave man or a cringer, can turn loose adrenal energies which must exhaust themselves in outrage and spoliation. It would be untrue to describe as a form of religious madness, even in religious India, a madness which operates also with equal fury among godless men. But where deep religiousness is present it is inevitably used, inevitably adds its own peculiar intensity...
There is also a rumor extant in these United States that he is the only player in the history of professional football ever to cover fleet touchdown making end Don Hutson along. Faced with this query, Bob was hard put to play himself down successfully. He explained that nobody ever covered Hutson alone...
...rumor had gone around that Columbia University wanted Sproul as president, at a whacking figure. Nearly 8,000 students jammed the gym, chafed impatiently until Governor Earl Warren, '12, finished a long speech. Then up jumped husky varsity halfback and Student President Ed Welch. Grabbing the mike, he cried: "We've been trying to steal a coach from another university. Now another university is trying to steal our most important man. We can't go on without Bob Sproul!" The band played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. A blue-&-gold banner implored: STICK WITH...
...Matter of Diplomacy. Father Lassalle found that isolated Brazilian Japanese had been terrorizing "defeatists" among their own people who spread "rumors" of Japan's surrender (TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Merchants who told the truth were boycotted; at least 14 "rumor spreaders" were said to have been murdered. Even letters from home were denounced as a Yankee trick. Some stubbornly believed that the Emperor of Japan would soon become Emperor of the world. Meanwhile, Sao Paulo swindlers cleaned up selling passage on non-existent ships to new non-existent Japanese colonies...