Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edited in part by three members of the Psychology Department, the "Rumor Clinic," a column appearing in the Boston Traveler, is aimed not so much at disproving all the rumors that come along, which would obviously be an impossible task, but more at making the public rumor conscious, according to Robert H. Knapp, teaching fellow in Psychology, one of the editors himself...
Several U.S. citizens proved last week that they were not too old to learn: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt scotched a rumor that she would head the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Said Mrs. Roosevelt, with a smile of resignation: "I can't take a Government position, because of my being the President's wife- I found that...
There were so many false reports of U.S. reinforcements arriving that Bataan's defenders swapped one cup of coffee for one fresh rumor. Fruits and vegetables were so infrequently on the menu that the No. 1 bull-session topic (lovely women back home) was displaced by elaborate descriptions of meals the men would order once the Jap was driven out of the Philippines...
...much secrecy already was precisely what many a citizen blamed for a lot of U.S. trouble-the false optimism of the headlines, the complacency of the public, the rumor-mongering denounced by the President, the unhealthy morale denoted in the saying that the U.S. was fighting a "confidential...
...worksheets are pamphlets outlining a method for the comprehensive study of a particular subject. Last semester the seminar prepared 18 of these on such topics as "Hitler--the man," and "The ABC's of Wartime Rumor...