Word: rumoring
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...Dowling tells it, the committee worked through the summer, and toward the fall, and a rumor was leaked that Murdock was the committee's first choice. Naturally, both The Boston Herald and The Boston Globe went after the story, and sent their photographers to New York to meet the ocean liner on which the Murdocks were reportedly returning from Europe...
MINISTRY OF MORALS. Women in Saudi Arabia who drive cars or show too much leg are routinely persecuted by the mutawain, the country's dreaded "morals police." Now non-Muslim women are rejoicing at a rumor that a U.S. servicewoman pulled her 9-mm sidearm on a mutawain zealot who tried to stop her from driving a military vehicle near the Dhahran air base. The mutawain officer has reportedly been suspended...
Later there was a rumor that Stalin demanded that Nikolayev be brought before him. Nikolayev fell to his knees, said he had acted on orders and begged for mercy. Maybe he figured he would be allowed to live because he had only carried out his mission. He was a fool. For the mission to remain secret, he had to be exterminated...
...longer and crankier these days, thanks to chronic shortages. Biding one's time to buy soap or bread has become the form of public life most readily available to the masses. Soviets spend so much time waiting that the lines have generated a culture all their own: part rumor mill, information exchange, social club and town meeting...
Milli Vanilli has so far survived the hilarious barbs of Arsenio Hall, + almost unanimous critical disdain and its own supercilious egotism to score a total of five Top Five singles. Even the hotly debated rumor that they don't do their own singing in live performance doesn't diminish their commercial luster. "If I'd heard the first Milli Vanilli record, I would have signed them," says Geffen Records president Ed Rosenblatt. Notes Jeff Gold, a vice president at Warner Bros. Records: "They may not be what I listen to when I go home, but they have good looks...