Word: rumoring
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Through the years he sharpened his typewriter on fact, rumor and wild gossip, a melange that he now serves up at three-column length every day. His comments on politics and politicians are studiously uninhibited. A recent column started out with a take-off on the country's current President: "A surprising story is going around-João Goulart has decided to govern the country. Sources, despite their usual reliability, did not mention two things: 1) Where did Senhor Goulart learn to govern? 2) Where did he get enough energy to come to this conclusion by himself...
...Touchstone want to get Ware? The answer to that question, provided by rumor, never was brought out at the trial. Apparently Touchstone had been living with a Negro woman for several years and had seen her talking to Ware at the barbeque...
...play, Queen Elizabeth left the theater alone, and was greeted by another chorus of boos. She looked startled and dismayed. It was probably the first time that British royalty had been so publicly humiliated at home since Edward VII was hissed at Epsom in the last century after rumor involved him as a corespondent in a divorce case...
...mirror one day, his wife saw a strange face, that of a very young girl-saintly, fair, rather sad. From his wife's description, Constantino knew instantly who it was: his own beloved sister Izildinha, who had died back home in 1911 at the age of 13. Izildinha, rumor had it, was so devout that Jesus once visited her. Again and again, Senhora Ribeiro's visions returned, and as Izildinha's fame spread, so did Constantino's business...
...read for the information they do not actually print-the stories that are suggested by the juxtaposition of columns or a long headline that just happens to run across the accounts of two otherwise unconnected events. All the Mirror really had to say about the Prince was that the rumor was "utterly unfounded...