Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearing this scene described over his radio, many a U.S. listener jumped from his chair; a few started celebrating. Yet the whole incident might have passed as just another rumor had it not been for what happened next at the White House...
...delegates. But some of us in the show who have been fighting Axis supporters over here are being put out of hotels." The San Francisco Chronicle drily reminded Winchell and Miss Hayes that Argentina had not been invited to San Francisco. The unabashable Winchell was off on another rumor. He persuaded Hearst's Examiner to by-line his prediction that the conference might be adjourned while Truman flew to meet Stalin and Churchill...
...Still Another? For many years after the war, Bob Ingalls devoutly believes, his yard will be busy. The diesel-electric locomotive orders should take up the slack between ship contracts. Last week shipping circles buzzed with a rumor of still another project. The rumor: after the war Ingalls will build a fleet of fast ships, operate them under his own house-flag carrying fruits and vegetables from West Coast ports to Europe...
letter from Professor Rademacher himself, reporting that his calculations had been checked and confirmed by famed Mathematician Carl Siegel of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Editor Albert got ready to publish the historic paper in the May issue. U.S. mathematicians, hearing the wildfire rumor, held their breath. Alas for drama, last week the issue went to press without the Rademacher article. At the last moment the professor wired meekly that it was all a mistake; on rechecking. Mathematician Siegel had discovered a flaw (undisclosed) in the Rademacher reasoning. U.S. mathematicians felt much like the morning after a phony...
...Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...