Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere along the bleak caravan routes the Kazak leaders had heard of a fabulous, rich and peaceful land to the south. In a place called India, the rumor ran, they could live quietly, with plenty of grass for their flocks. Turning his back on China, the Kazak's sturdy, 40-year-old chieftain Ali Yas Khan led the remnants of the tribe south...
...general pattern of attack had emerged by last week. As ever, the Axis radio searched for the chinks between friendly peoples, insinuated between them its calculated lies, its bacilli of rumor. The British were told that U.S. admirals secretly rejoiced at the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse. The Americans were told to resent the British command of Far Eastern land forces. Disappointment was encouraged among the Chinese...
Invasion. There came a day when, in the finest symbolic moment in the book, Ling Sao, cleaning a rice cauldron with sand, felt the vessel shiver in her hands, and ring with the rumor of distant artillery. The peasants vaguely began to realize that they must expect "the little dwarfs from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien...
...notion of employing airships as plane carriers is not regarded in Washington as moonshine. The rumor is rife that the Nazis intend to load up the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-70 with planes, ship them west for token bombing raids on the U.S. It would be a dangerous trip for them in more ways than one. The Nazis have no helium, would have to inflate their dirigibles with inflammable hydrogen. The U.S. still has the only helium available-thanks largely to tough little Harold Ickes, who killed a proposed sale to the Germans back...
...While some progress has been made toward segregating rare and irreplaceable specimens in the museum", he continued, "nothing has as yet been moved from the several departments of the museum, nor is any such move contemplated under existing circumstances." Earlier rumor reports has stated that the glass models of flowers were about to be moved to Petersham...