Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even California has produced no more overripe character than Dahish the Amazer, a dynamic hypnotist who set himself up in Lebanon as a second Christ, built up an ardent circle of cultists. At the top of his vogue, in 1944, the souks (bazaars) of Beirut peddled many a rumor of orgies in his modern villa in the Mazraa section of the city. Over their tea at the Patisserie Suisse, over cocktails at the seaside Normandie, Beirutis whispered that Dahish was getting into trouble with the Government. Lebanon's good, round President, Sheikh Bechara El Khoury, frowned on Dahish...
...walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound had distorted his mouth. For the first time after two decades of rumor, Dumini told a graphic story of the famous killing...
...subversive rumor was in the wind. It was noised about that one of the Houses was fielding a pair of identical twins, one of whom wields a potent wand at the plate. Opponents began considering the possibilities...
...rumor was that "Shell's pulling out." It hit Ecuador last week with all the panicky force of a colliery's closing on a Pennsylvania hard-coal town. It remained rumor while officials of .the Shell Co. of Ecuador, Ltd. talked about reorganization rather than withdrawal. But in Quito Shell's lawyer, Henry Farquharson, after insisting that plans called for firing of less than 20% of 4,500 employees, added ominously: "You can't go on indefinitely." What he meant was that Shell could not go on pouring money into a plan which...
...oyster shells, debris, and refuse which were used to fill in the area. And an additional mark of the Charle's utility is that a number of such reputable towns as Wellesley, Newton, and Watertown have obtained all or part of their water supply from it. Despite what some rumor mongers may have said, the Charles is pretty clean, except for a small amount of sediment...