Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When handsome Albert Gore called at the White House, conferred with the President, a rumor spread that the Administration will send Gore's clean-cut price bill into the ring in place of the punch-drunk bill the committee had given such a beating...
...Rumor put their demands at $200 apiece...
Even while he spoke, worried people in the crowd glanced at the sky. There was a rumor that, several nights before, R.A.F. planes had swooped over Naples, dropped pamphlets promising to visit the celebration in Rome. But no planes came...
While he was speaking the Bordeaux hostages were shot. Then the Germans made a magnanimous gesture. They would delay for a few days the execution of the next hundred hostages. To explain this change of heart Vichy authorities is sued an official statement. "It is rumored in Vichy," the announcement said, "that Marshal Pétain wished to give himself up as a hostage in the occupied zone to prevent additional executions planned as a result of attacks at Nantes and Bordeaux. The Marshal's Cabinet has no declaration to make on the subject." The announcement of this "rumor...
...jeep positively will not fly, but there is a widespread notion in the Army that it can do anything else. Last week in Washington there was a rumor that the midget was going to be equipped with 75-mm. guns. Since the jeep's practical load limit is 800 lb., it could hardly tote a 75, which weighs 3,900. But it is steady as a mule under the recoil of a 37-mm. antitank gun. If, under stress, the jeep should turn over, it is a simple matter for a few soldiers to set it right side...