Word: rumoring
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...sooner were the freed prisoners on the streets and vowing to "revenge the revolution" than a rumor spread that more political prisoners were still inside Villa Devoto. With that, the crowd stormed the gates and the guards opened fire, leaving two dead, nine wounded. Their authority compromised, government officials subsequently found themselves in the ludicrous position of having to haggle with all kinds of prisoners, including psychopathic murderers who demanded that they be released from a Buenos Aires asylum...
...question that has been plaguing us for some time. Since the match was held at Radcliffe's Garden St. courts, it proved beyond reasonable doubt that the Bok Administration does indeed know where Radcliffe really is. The match has served to lay to rest once and for all the rumor that President Bok thinks of Radcliffe as existing "somewhere northwest of the Yard." Monday's match asserts without doubt that the Bok Administration does indeed know where Radcliffe is. We commend this knowledge...
Yesterday's mass resignation came 13 days after the President announced that his own investigation of the bugging scandal had brought "major developments" to his attention. Thirteen days of innuendo, 13 days of leaks to the press, 13 days of endless rumor. Although the recent revelations clearly demanded immediate honest and forthright action, the President chose to retire to the solitude of Camp David, Md., to contemplate the effect of the Watergate affair, and to decide what moves must be made to save his Administration from ruination...
...leaders also agreed to crack down on the prison rumor mill. "Before," said Rudy, "if a guy saw a Stone [Black P. Stone] with a knife, he'd go and tell the Ds [Disciples]." Added Andrew ("Candy Blue") Brooks, boss of the Vice Lords: "Now when a dude makes that kind of charge, he is brought before the leaders. Now the rumor man has to validate his stories." Finally, a drive was organized by the leaders to dispose of all "shanks" (knives). "What we have here now," Earl Moore said, "is a sort of United Nations to settle disagreements...
...will and became part of the continuing friction that defined itself in terms of both age and politics. Junior reporters began calling two older executives "Mad Dog" and "Snake," and were in turn referred to as "the Cong" and "the Revolutionaries." For a while management fretted over a rumor that reporters were planning to put LSD in the cafeteria water fountain...