Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants to start the rumor...
...sessions got under way, Director-General Herbert Lehman admitted the prevalence of rumors that "we are not doing as much as some people expected. ..." He admitted that "greater cooperation is still to be desired." He denied one rumor-that he would resign. Delegates had tough policy matters to settle, too. Should UNRRA help ex-enemy Italy? If so, would Germany be eligible? And Japan? It would take a majority vote to effectuate such aid. One delegate was on record. China's Tsiang Ting-fu favored making "the necessities of life available to the Japanese after...
Dribbles of truth in a gushing torrent of rumor gave a veiled outline of the Germans' departure from the Balkans. On a front which a month ago had been held by 100 divisions, the Nazis now had left 15 Hungarian and 35 German divisions, but 25 Rumanian, 25 Bulgarian had departed, some of them to fight on the other side. Now the Germans were desperately rushing new defenders, scraped up somehow, to hold at the Danube...
...bill of fare has revived a small industry that was nearly killed off by the war. Now Costa Rican markets are selling some 20,000 pounds of turtle meat a week. At first the people of the highlands in the interior refused to touch the stuff. There was a rumor that turtle meat caused leprosy. But that rumor yielded to another: that turtle meat is an aphrodisiac...
...Rumor said that the Gaullists had 700,000 names on their blacklist. Subprefect Edgar Pisani of the Paris Special Police promised a fair trial for every accused person. He said: "We want to be deliberate and methodical. Why hurry to round up those still at large? Some inevitably will get away but we are bound to catch up with the great majority sooner or later...