Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both in London and Washington the rumor ran that Britain's Ambassador had returned to pack his bags, wait for his successor to be announced. If Lord Halifax had heard the rumor, he did not let on. He called at the White House, spent 50 minutes talking with the President. Said he: "We exchanged impressions. . . ." Asked about a report that Russia may be considering a separate peace with Germany, he answered flatly: "There is absolutely no sign of that...
Rumania. The Nazis were combating revolt and sabotage. There was a rumor that Premier General Ion Antonescu had left his Premiership and his command beside the Nazis on the Russian front...
There was a growing rumor that Bawler Bevin's Cabinet days were numbered, that Sir Walter Citrine would succeed him. The luxury of the quarrel between them seemed to many to have been justified as issue-clearing. Spreading rapidly throughout Britain was the conviction that, to keep Russia in the war, Britain must go all-out with the finest equipment to Russia, even at the expense of whittling down her home defense and pinching the army with which she hopes some day to invade the continent...
Buenos Aires bulged with political gossip. Most pungent rumor was that onetime President Agustin Pedro Justo was quietly readying a comeback. Many party bigwigs, already culling candidates for the national elections in 1943, derisively termed him "a political candidate in search of a party." But veteran politicos, recalling the General Justo of old, added two & two, got approximately four...
...Rumor has it that the changes were made because the growing tide of indifference has left the stands of flaming Crimson unwilling to give the necessary effort for the old "three times three...