Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Lanus confirmed the rumor that before last year's Rio conference Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú tried to seduce Chile, Paraguay and Peru into a bloc to refuse cooperation with the U.S. Argentina waited this week to see whether Campo Minado would be suppressed when it was put on public sale...
...remember Singer Flagstad with reverence and affection as the greatest Isolde since Nordica. She returned to Norway in April 1941 for a summer's visit, then broke a two-month silence to announce that she would remain there until the war ended. More silence followed, punctuated only by rumors-that the Norwegian Brünnhilde, who likes good food & drink, was enjoying plenty of both in heavily rationed Norway; that she was a popular guest at quisling parties; that en route to Norway she had stopped in Berlin, described Nazi Germany as "a lovely place...
...week's end rumor had it that the Congress Committee, before it was through, would announce some vast campaign of protest. Mohandas Gandhi's followers often claim that his awareness of India is as sensitive as his palate, which can tell the temperature of his daily soup to within a fraction of a degree. If so, India was in a mood for protest. For that was Gandhi's mood...
...course you have ten dollars resting expectantly between the bill folds. There are three other pieces of green paper, worth approximately one dollar apiece, snuggled in beside it, but don't touch them: they are for your athletic locker. And don't worry about getting home in September. Rumor bath it that gas will be abundant and hitch-hiking profitable by that time. No: just pull out the ten spot and slide it to the gent across the desk, paste your picture on the card he gives you, and squirm...
...secret fears that Britain's offer of post-war separation to provinces which voted to secede might lead to Hindu-Moslem strife. The Moslem League objected to Britain's principle that such voting would be by existing provinces (whose boundaries are not according to Moslem majorities). Rumor claimed that some Congress members, instead of wanting more war responsibility, wanted to avoid such headaches. Undoubtedly they wanted to avoid the headaches of such partial responsibility as Britain offered...