Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followers, in the event of disturbance, to protect Britons even at risk of their own lives. From all this it could be concluded that Gandhi did not intend to hamper Britain's war effort by calling strikes, but might stage some vast, symbolic demonstration aimed at shaming Britain. Rumor had it that he would call on hordes of Indians to approach Britons individually, saying: "Please leave India and go to England, which is your home...
Only disturbing rumor (about which the staff was evasive in its denials): that for fear of offending mothers and antagonizing wives, Yank will print no cheesecake...
...United States Navy will begin occupation of the Yard for the duration, when 500 Radio Communications officers commandeer its northern portion about June 15. Official University announcement of the extensive plan came yesterday, climaxing six weeks of negotiations and putting an end to popular rumor as to the Yard's fate...
...mysterious case of France's grey, aging General Henri Honoré Giraud, who was recently rumored to have made an almost incredible escape from a German prison (TIME, May 11), was still unsolved. It was said that he was at liberty in Vichy, had refused to parole himself, but had sworn allegiance to Marshal Pétain and promised not to join the Free French forces. At week's end came another rumor: General Giraud had been arrested in Switzerland for traveling with false papers...
Just as dreams are the psychologist's cue to the structure of an individual personality, so rumor is a cue to the underlying morale of a nation. It reveals the conflicts, latent hostilities, wishes and fears of the people...