Word: rumoring
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...absence of a restraining force, had previously operated as the vanguard of the student movement. Cambodia/Kent State also opened new lines of communication within universities. For the first time in years, students, faculty and administrators agreed on a major issue. Formalized by new devices like campus ombudsmen and rumor-control centers, the new intimacy strengthened many an institution. LAW-AND-ORDER. The bombers and arsonists have sown genuine fear among students, who generally despise violence as much as anyone else. At the same time, most campuses have promulgated tough rules against unpeaceful dissenters. They have beefed up their security forces...
...executives will cheerfully deny that they know anyone named Ludwig. Says a senior executive who left his employ this year: "Mr. Ludwig organizes his business as a system of separate cells. The members of one cell do not usually know that the others exist, except by rumor. Only Mr. Ludwig knows the full extent of his empire, and how it all fits together...
...boyhood encounter, with drawn daggers, at the edge of the sea. "The exact taste of that moment was what he now sought. In this nighttime of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were also in wait for him -because he already divined a rumor of hexameters and glory, a rumor of men defending a shrine which the gods would not save and of black ships roaming the seas in search of a loved island...
...anything you want, baby, but just don't step on my blue suede shoes. Elvis is often an annoying, tedious, mundane film. It uses close-ups when long-shots are demanded. It cuts away from the action before it ever has a chance to begin. Rumor has it that only when the cameramen had folded up their gear and scurried back to their editing rooms, did Elvis begin to put on a show. Which is exactly as it should be. For film here is the villian, Presley its occasionally almost tragic victim...
...Tonight the women's' movement stands accused by me," she began. "There is a false and dangerous rumor that a feminist movement exists. It is false because it is not moving. You've got 20,000 women moving no place...