Word: rumoring
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...course of the 1960 presidential campaign, Jacqueline Kennedy got a full quota of wound stripes. A malicious rumor was dry-docked at New York's River Club that Joe Kennedy had given Jackie a million dollars not to divorce Jack. An Ohio woman remarked darkly that "she's both French and Catholic. The wine will flow in the White House." Gossip columnists reported seriously that Jackie was not pregnant-that it was all an elaborate hoax to remove her from the campaign scene. Her biggest battle-the affair of the sable underwear-was touched off when Women...
...York Stock Exchange "suggested" that the company declare at once all details about the product. It did. Ever since Manhattan Lawyer Roy Cohn, onetime aid to the late Joe McCarthy, bought Lionel Corp. a year ago, the model-railroad maker's stock has risen, helped by better earnings, rumors, new flashes and promotional splashes. A month ago Lionel President John B. Medaris was scheduled to speak before the prestigious New York Society of Security Analysts, and word went around that there he would reveal that Missile Expert Wernher von Braun was joining Lionel. Next day Lionel was the second...
...keeps rising until they get to New York." The good word is often spread through press conferences, news releases, well-written company reports. These devices do not bring any protest from the stock exchanges; what they object to is the furtive telephoned tips to a newspaper, the phony rumor passed on to brokers, the information passed on to a favored...
Fuit intus rumor quidam sternutamenti similis et deinde denuo silentium...
...Cairo rumor now has it that Nasser would like to scuttle Gumhuria and turn Akhbar into a kind of Egyptian Pravda. But most Egyptian newsmen argued that in the end Nasser would recognize that he needed the Amins and their lively journalism to get his own message across. Such was obviously the hope of the Amins themselves, who scrupulously refrained from any criticism of Nasser, would only say cautiously: "There has been something of a misunderstanding...