Word: rumoring
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...sooner had the Japanese bombers hit Pearl Harbor than a rumor spread that they had been guided by Hawaii's Japanese farm workers' slashing giant arrows in sugarcane fields. Similar stories swept California and beyond. "The fifth- column activities added great confusion," said Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the Pacific Fleet commander. The confusion was largely...
...many of the Americans, the whole morning had a dreamlike unreality. Disbelief had been the overwhelming first reaction -- this couldn't be happening, it was a trick, a drill, a silly rumor, a prank -- disbelief and then pain and then anger, and still disbelief...
DOONESBURY is one of the top comic strips in newspapers today, due in large part to the fact that it pulls no punches in satirizing public figures. In relying on rumor rather than proven fact, however, Trudeau is hitting below the belt, stooping to the level of slur and innuendo rather than poignant satire...
...just released a new album, a 21-song, two-CD, 96-min. masterpiece, Hymns to the Silence (Polydor), that has actually crept onto the Billboard charts. It's no threat to Guns N' Roses, mind you, but at least it has made a showing. There's even a rumor that it's getting played on the radio...
Thomas should be confirmed. Nothing could send a more powerful message to would-be dirt-diggers and rumor-mongers that the Senate's advise and consent function will not be further corrupted...