Word: rumoring
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About a year ago, as the Harvard aquawomen finished up a disastrous 1-8 season, the rumor mongers were busy at Blodgett Pool. "Stephanie Walsh is through," they rasped, "She won't be back to coach another year...
...most plausible culprit was initially thought to be South Africa. Pretoria denied the charge, as well as a subsequent rumor that the South Africans had been testing a tactical weapon for their fleet of Israeli-designed missile boats. Last week CBS News reported another possibility: the light burst had been caused by an Israeli nuclear test conducted with the "help and cooperation" of South Africa. The report, which was based on an unpublished book by two Israeli former journalists, was immediately dismissed by Jerusalem as "complete nonsense" and by Pretoria as "ridiculous." Washington said it had no evidence either...
Depending only on rumor for news from the outside and unable to contact anyone, David L. Evans, senior admissions officer for Harvard and Radcliffe, felt "very tense," he said yesterday. "I feared we might be accidently harmed," he added...
Infiltration? A possibility. The problem was locating a female among FBI ranks who would be willing to frizz her hair and wear jeans (for the good of the country). Rumor has it that they finally located one for the job, but unfortunately she came back from her first NOW meeting demanding equal pay. So, recognizing the instability inherent in all females, even their own recruits, and unable to find any male agent willing to go in drag, the FBI abandoned the infiltration ploy...
...NOTEBOOK: Stop That Rumor: No, swingman Don Fleming is not related to Harvard's intellectual history czar, Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History...