Word: rumoring
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...bitterness intensified, the Beacon backers accused the Eagle of injecting anti-Semitic lines in its news columns (the Levands are Jewish), while Eagle staffers spread rumors that the Beacon was getting ads by threatening to publish photographs of solid citizens surprised by Beacon photographers in compromising situations. The Eagle wrote balefully of "the threat of Levand influence," went out of its way to talk about "Max Levand of the Wichita Beacon, who owes the Government nearly $10,000 in taxes." When Marcellus Murdock's daughter went East and married a Jew, the Eagle said nothing, but the Beacon told...
Keep Out. As the days wore on, the rumor spread that the princess herself had ordered the blackout in retaliation for the mob scene at the airport ("And that is not far from the truth," admitted an embassy official in private). The dismal climax came when she paid her call on the Federation of British Industries' fair-the purpose of her trip in the first place. Not only were the Portuguese barred and all entrances locked (though the British exhibitors were allowed in), but Margaret was followed about by six burly, khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty...
...conflict of ideas, have come to hate each other. But the Strauss case has gone far beyond the personal quarrel between two men; it has widened out to involve their friends and their associates, strained old ties and old loyalties, brought charge and countercharge, insult and counterinsult, rumor and counterrumor. And it has become a major test of the relationship between Republican President Dwight Eisenhower and the Democratic 86th Congress...
Seeking a way out of this impasse, the British delegation began to talk hopefully of the usefulness of "villa-hopping"'-informal "social" meetings of the Big Four foreign ministers unencumbered by their German advisers. When Herter invited Couve, Lloyd and Gromyko to dinner (fish, chicken and strawberries), the rumor spread that serious bargaining was about to begin. But guests and host sat uncommunicatively on love seats and agreed on nothing beyond the superb view of Mt. Blanc by moonlight...
...most stupid graduate I knew" and further conjectured that "there were few less intelligent among those who failed." That Courtney ever arrived at Harvard has remained a source of awe and wonder. His parents deny that he was an imposter; the Admissions Committee rejects the rumor that a letter of acceptance was sent him by mistake. The Deans in general refuse to be approached on "the Peabody matter...