Word: rumoring
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...only trouble with Reed's sensational tale is that not a word of it is true. That inconvenient fact has not stopped a busy rumor mill in Arkansas from cranking out ever more preposterous allegations, nor has it prevented some credulous journalists, including Andrew Cockburn, a columnist for the Nation, from using Reed as a source for absurdly speculative accounts. None of those who are taking Reed's wild stories seriously seem to have asked why Clinton, a vocal critic of U.S. aid to the contras who even then was considering running for President, would have done risky favors...
...Rumor has it that Eliot, which usually dominates the May races, will be given a serious challenge this year by Leverett and Dunster...
...added that the Globe reports lack credibility because they do not specifically name sources and only attribute rumor-provoking information to "city officials" or "informed sources...
...grew up in Seattle and I like baseball but, frankly, I shed few tears when I first heard that the Mariners might be sold and moved to Florida. After hearing a rumor to this effect almost annually, my initial reaction was: So what, I'd rather watch a good farm team play in an outdoor park than a second-rate major league team play in a football stadium cum missile silo...
...fact, according to the rumor mill, Jessica Hahn may have needed them too, as may have Melanie Griffith, Jane Fonda, Brigitte Nielsen and even, gasp, Dolly Parton. Why take chances? The doctors know there are not only obvious forms of micromastia, discernible to the man on the street, but insidious, hidden forms -- very well hidden indeed...