Word: rumoring
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OPHULS SHOT THE FILM in five weeks, a fact which he justifies by citing the rumor level in a place like Belfast which would tend to make jumping back and forth between sides for a longer period somewhat hazardous, and the fact that he wanted to create a sense of immediacy, particularly by a unification of events. He quite obviously did not want to go into any deep analysis of people's lives, and he did not want to try and trace the historical roots of the conflict. He wanted to portray the struggle as it exists to the people...
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There's a rumor in our neighborhood, though, that Kenny's parents met when his mother, who was Miss Brooklyn at the time, posed for a picture with his father after he had won the national handball championship...
...decided not to print the whole story, we would have engaged in a subtle and dangerous form of self-censorship." This is the principle by which we operate. We cannot suppress news that is pertinant to the Harvard athletic community, especially if that news is already circulating in rumor form. It is our aim and it is our duty to clarify rumors and to follow them up to the best of our ability. We were not out to "get" Dave Hynes just as we were not out to "get" Eric Crone. They are public figures and their activities...
...stock market, which for years has been crowded with heavy breathers at the merest wisp of a peace rumor, inscrutably chose the session immediately following President Nixon's cease-fire announcement to stage a flounder. The Dow Jones industrial average, the most closely watched barometer, fell 14 points, its largest decline in 18 months. On Friday, the Dow closed at 1,004, off 23 points for the week and down 48 points from its high so far in what was supposed to be a banner year...