Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What to do? One obvious move was to sack a general (see Battle of France). There was even a rumor that Hitler himself might assume command in the west, a move not calculated to reassure German soldiers lucky enough to have survived the Fuhrer's earlier experiments with the intuitive method of military command...
Rundstedt could scarcely pass a fanaticism test. A devout and amoral Junker, he gives his basic loyalty to the German military tradition rather than to the Nazi Party. After his dismissal last week, a Stockholm rumor promptly had him under house arrest. More probably he retired to his country place in Bad Nauheim with his phonograph records (all military marches by brass bands) and his collection of buttons and epaulets of all the world's armies...
England" meant the London area.* One M.P. denounced the censorship as "a complete farce"; others demanded that the casualty totals be published-on the grounds that rumor was magnifying them unduly. Thousands of Britons watched the buzz-bombs winging toward their targets. Among the watchers: Winston Churchill, his wife and daughter Mary...
...notably those of I.T. & T., Packard, and all the war-busy auto companies, turned into a scramble. Most riproaring of all was Willys-Overland, which got a new boss fortnight ago, ex-Fordman Charles E. Sorensen (TIME, June 19). Day after day Willys charged ahead, helped along by a rumor: a new postwar combine of small auto and parts companies...
There had been plenty of reason for optimism. Since March, the New York Stock Exchange has quivered on every D-day rumor. But last week, taking its courage firmly in hand, the Exchange: 1) had its busiest day of the year, turning over 1,193,080 shares; 2) saw the Dow-Jones industrial average rise to 142.24, a new peak...