Word: rumoring
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...nowhere flashed the rumor, sweeping across Capitol Hill, lighting up switchboards, sending Democratic congressional aides running helter-skelter to newsmen with the breathless question: "Anything from the White House...
Input: hot news or modification thereof; anything from a new bow tie to a fresh rumor...
...report from Ankara, where Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was conferring with Turkey's Premier Menderes and Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, that Britain had accepted partition of Cyprus (between Greeks and Turks) as a solution for the island's troubles. Minutes later, the rumor was proved false. The peaceful procession was abruptly transformed into an angry, howling mob. The "Black Turks" -Cyprus' special police trained to brutal efficiency in breaking up riots-were unwilling to fight their own people; the brunt fell on British troops and police. Flinging Coke bottles and stones...
...world's best-kept secrets. The Met has had the triptych for more than a year, hints that it has not been in Belgium since World War II, gives no hint as to the identity of the seller. Several months ago (long after the fact) Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been willed to the daughter of Count Guillaume d'Henricourt de Grünne. King Baudouin himself intervened...
...roof of a school library. They pelted "Black Turk" police in the square below, beat back attempts to storm the library entrance. Security forces broke the siege only after firing volleys of tear gas and charging in with batons for hand-to-hard fighting. The same day, a rumor swept Nicosia of the murder of two Turks by EOKA's Greek terrorists. Turk Cyprors stormed out of their quarters, sacked a Greek church and five shops...