Word: rumoring
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Confirmation of the rumor that four Americans had been kept apart from the other hostages took place in a dramatic on-camera television scene that was carried to the U.S. by satellite. It happened on Saturday morning in the schoolyard near the Beirut airport, where the hostages and their luggage were assembled for what was expected to be an imminent trip to Damascus. It looked like a rather shaggy adult-education class being called to order, except for the gun-toting Amal guards watching from rooftops. In his now familiar crisp tones, Allyn Conwell called out the names...
Over the years, his activities began to form a patchwork quilt of legend and rumor. He was reported to have masterminded a heroin-trafficking ring in Paraguay; he was said to have been Stroessner's personal physician, as well as the dictator's special adviser in a genocidal campaign against Paraguay's Ache Indians. Like some dark spirit, he seemed to be everywhere at once, often hidden behind sunglasses; he was sighted in Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, and in the jungles of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay...
Unaccountably, Spacks' catalog of great gossips omits Marcel Proust, the greatest eavesdropper and scandalmonger of them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...
Some students, though, didn't know about either the station wagon rumor or the Hollis resident's announcement--and rioted anyway...
...gentrification of Boot Key Marina has begun. At the end of March the Pluhars sold it to a man named John Theurer. Rumor swept through Marathon that the selling price was over $2 million. Nobody knew much about the buyer. Up and down Highway 1, in the banks and the bars and the early-morning breakfast places, people were telling one another that he was part of the Theurer family that had made its money in truck- trailer manufacturing. "To be fair, no one knows what he is going to do with the marina," said a longtime resident, sitting...