Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Germans took over. Kiki dropped out of sight. Sentimental Left Bankers typically believed a rumor that she had retired to the country and was raising a family of healthy children. But this happy ending was untrue...
Target for Tonight. In Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, there was a near panic when somebody started a rumor that the planet Saturn had jumped its orbit, was hellbent for Dinkelsbuhl...
...Loadings. One answer to Europe's and Asia's emergency lay with U.S. grain farmers, who have about 365,000,000 bushels of wheat stored in their bins. Last week, as a rumor spread through the Midwest grain bowl that ceiling prices might be pushed higher, farmers took a firmer grip on their supplies instead of hauling them to market. Receipts of grains at Midwest terminals were down to a trickle. Great Lakes steamers, making their first 1946 runs to Duluth, Superior and Port Arthur, found scant cargoes at the cavernous elevators...
...Arena. Winston Churchill drove into a barrage of rumor that his Conservative Party leadership would soon be taken over by heir-apparent Anthony Eden. Day after his Southampton arrival he turned up in the House of Commons, evoked a round of cheers that interrupted a speech by Food Minister Sir Ben Smith. He smiled and waved apologetically to Smith, who waved back. Next day he held a parley with his "shadow cabinet" of top party colleagues...
...Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...