Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week without warning, almost casually, the council canceled the subsidies on cooking oil, soap, milk and beef for the capital. Porteños whispered that the President himself had appeared before the council to ask for the step. The rumor ran that soon all subsidies, even the whopping annual support for wheat and sugar, would be lifted...
This week in Chicago, I.B.C. puts on its second big show (Jersey Joe Walcott v. Ezzard Charles). Tongue-in-cheek sport-writers have been touting it as the "slightly" heavyweight championship. Said Boxing Director Louis, squelching a rumor that he might give up promoting and make a ring comeback: "Promoting don't pay as well as fightin', but it lasts longer...
...contrast, Skip Walz, now in his third year as the Yale coach, was an advocate of a high count. Last year the Yales stroked around 40, often going as high as 46. But this year Walz has altered his strategy and pre-race rumor estimates that the Blue will stroke around...
...years, no meeting of the American Medical Association has been complete without a rumor that contentious, energetic Dr. Morris Fishbein would be ousted as editor of A.M.A.'s Journal, which is the only official position he has ever held in U.S. medicine's topmost organization. But through most of his 37 years with A.M.A. (he will be 60 in July), Dr. Fishbein went serenely on as official spokesman for U.S. doctors. He was "Dr. A.M.A." and the man to quote on anything medical. He was quoted so often that few of his bosses ever got much attention...
...Maryland Court of Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved] in attempting to keep the stream of justice undefiled by sensationalism . . . [But] trials cannot be held in a vacuum, hermetically sealed against rumor and report...