Word: rumoring
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...weeks, Moscow's 50-man corps of Western correspondents has buzzed with an exciting rumor. Last week rumor became official fact. Abruptly summoned to the Foreign Ministry building by Ministry Press Chief Mikhail Kharlamov, the newsmen were told that 43 years of direct Russian censorship were...
...Further, they are rumor carriers, trouble carriers, weapons carriers, narcotic carriers and sometimes disease carriers. They are promiscuous, truant and violent. They participate in petty theft, have out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and use alcohol and narcotics excessively...
...Critic Kenneth Tynan wonders whether Brechtian drama "is a gigantic tribute to motherhood." Brecht's men are usually drunks, cynics or compromisers, his heroines "mostly instruments of salvation . . . Did Brecht, as rumor insists, spurn his father and worship his mother? If so, it supports the old hypothesis that the men who adore their mothers lean toward the Left, while those who idolize their fathers lean toward the Right." Whether or not Tynan is correct about Brecht, he certainly has the makings of a fascinating psychological parlor game...
Toomey assailed "the way in which members of the legislature have become whipping boys of some members of the Commonwealth." "What gall and what small minds some of the people in Cambridge have," he declared. "It is time for the Legislature to put a stop to this kind of rumor...
Other opposition may present itself in human form. For the past two a rumor has circulated about that Harvard Square housewives intend to a "sit-in" if the project should the construction stage...