Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favored admitting Argentina to the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Anti-U.S. feeling, always smoldering in Mexico, recently burst into flame with a series of speeches and newspaper articles against Padilla. His collaboration with the U.S., they charged, had turned into "entreguismo" (selling out). A damaging rumor went the rounds-that U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith was urging President Harry S. Truman to use U.S. influence to make Padilla President of Mexico...
Winchester Wilds and Belmont Manor have a certain something in common, or so is spread the rumor, but W. W. (for brevity) has a little more of it. Success, so say the W. boys (Woodin, Willcox, Walker, Wood, Brocker--a ringer--and Wolf), if only in the mind, so take heart, mssrs. Schroeder, Shellenbarger, Marchese, Bourgeois, and Ballentine...
Other trainloads of soldiers went through the same sort of experience-and they all griped. It did not cool them off to see civilians whizzing by in air-cooled Pullmans, or to hear a rumor that German prisoners of war were also riding in Pullmans. P.O.W.s ride in Pullmans only when they are certified as ill; Italian Service Units sometimes get Pullman service...
Winston Churchill, had already left London. Tired out with campaigning (see FOREIGN NEWS), he rested at Hendaye, a pleasant town and international rumor factory on the Spanish-French border. President Truman planned to cross the Atlantic and then France without seeing Charles de Gaulle, who will visit him later in Washington. Since it would never do to give the impression of an advance Anglo-American caucus, Truman and Churchill decided not to meet before they reached Potsdam. Stalin was coming by train over rails recently changed, all the way to the Elbe, to the broad Russian gauge...
Last week a group of griping soldiers met in Aldershot (pop.: 36,000). Soon the group grew to mob size. A rumor rose that some Canadian soldiers were imprisoned in the local jail. The mob marched off to release them. For two and a half hours they rioted through Aldershot, breaking windows, overturning cars, ignoring the pleas of senior officers...