Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ching memories of their foot-slogging as in the infantry returned in full force many a man in Company A Saturday afternoon, when Major Bernard A. Merriam set out to disprove what he said as a "rumor that I'm all right on a bicycle but not much on a hike." He took a company out on an extended stroll...
...Badoglio Government had proclaimed martial law (TIME, Aug. 2), but the Milanese paid no heed. Report and rumor painted their temper as exuberant, mutinous. Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House...
...Badoglio Government, which presumably knew, kept silent. But Europe's rumor factories labored overtime, putting the ex-Duce...
While the shouting died, the mystery remained (the seventh-place Phillies under Harris-his first year-had already won 39 games, had won only 42 all last year). Sour rumor said that Brooklyn's Branch Rickey was really running Philadelphia's Bill Cox, that Rickey was lining up Bucky Harris against a day when Rickey could get rid of Brooklyn's noisy manager Leo Durocher...
...stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing his power on condition that his personal safety be assured. Another rumor had him and his chief party colleagues arrested while seeking escape to Germany, then put under house guard near Rome...