Word: rumoring
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Bush, however, has plenty of his own troubles. His top advisers, split between the West Wing and campaign headquarters a few blocks away, are at each other's throats. The rumor last month that Baker would soon return as chief of staff was started by Mosbacher and friends, who think it is Sam Skinner's White House, not the campaign, that needs fixing. White House officials fired back last week, predicting Baker would return -- but only to give the listless campaign a boost...
...outgrown cocaine, or at least to have resolved to limit serious drugs to weekends and saint's days. But when Jeff, Russell's star first novelist, arrives at a bash with a 19-year-old model and a heroin habit, eyebrows are raised. Middle age is still a laughable rumor, but in a distant and abstract way, doom is understood to exist...
...Kenya's Maathai is facing trial on charges of publishing "a false rumor which is likely to alarm the public," namely that the Moi government was planning to hand over power to the military. Last month, during a protest by fasting mothers of political prisoners, she was tear-gassed and clubbed unconscious by police. In January more than 100 police officers swarmed her house in Nairobi and arrested her. A night in jail with no mattress or blankets so aggravated her rheumatism that she was hospitalized for several days after her release...
Ashe, 48, found out about the infection in 1988. Until last week he kept quiet, figuring that, unlike basketball superstar Magic Johnson, he was no longer a public figure. But USA Today approached him to confirm what had until then been a rumor, and Ashe reluctantly spoke...
...search of productive employment. I mean long ago, when citizens sent off their tax forms marked "sealed with a kiss," knowing Uncle Sam would use the money to right wrongs, build bridges and comfort the widows and orphans. But has anyone seen Uncle Sam recently? There is a rumor that the Nixon team took out the old gent two decades ago. They found him rattling around in a back office, raving about health care and housing and a few spanking-new pieces of infrastructure to plop down somewhere -- and they quietly sealed the door. It was a coup of sorts...