Word: rumoring
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...great tradition is expected to resemble the gyascutus. prock, tree squeak and swamp gaboon rolled into one. Bernhardt, it is said, would swirl onstage with "eyes that resembled holes burned into a sheet of paper"; her lines she sang in a melodious but somewhat fruity "voice of gold." Rumor had it that she slumbered in a coffin lined with silk. The majestic Modjeska once held a U.S. audience "clutched in [her] spell" with a heartbreaking recital of what she later admitted was the Polish alphabet, and the mighty Duse would petulantly play her big scenes hidden from the audience...
...sound of clash and the rumor of war rumbled through the Middle East. Would the Israelis-1,500,000 people ringed around by 40 million Arab enemies -attack before the Egyptians could use the shiploads of arms the Communists had sold them? Last week the Israelis struck the bloodiest blow since the 1949 armistice. But what at first looked like the beginning of the worst turned out at week's end to be not a preventive war but one quick, calculated ounce of prevention...
...Armstrong just happened to be seated at the same table with a pair of visiting golfers named William Roberts and Richard Vitali. Roberts, who claimed a 17-stroke handicap (along with his partner's 18), seemed strangely confident. No one knew anything about him, but there was a rumor running around the club that he had burned up the course on a practice round a few days before...
Murchison: "There was a rumor in Texas Vanderbilt wanted to buy these shares. I got [my lawyer] to go to Vanderbilt. He said the rumor was fiction." With that, Murchison went ahead with the deal. He asked Partner Sid Richardson, one of the world's richest oilmen, to come in with him because $20 million "occurred to me as a pretty big bite to take alone." Well, how much was Mr. Murchison worth? asked court-appointed Referee Robert J. Fitzsimmons. Answered Murchison : "About five, six or seven million." As it turned out, though, he did not need any money...
...Chemical Co., sent the big chemical company up 2¼ points to 50 ⅜ In autos, giant General Motors jumped | of a point to 143⅞ when its stockholders put final approval on the-three-for-one stock split announced two months ago. Chrysler stock took a ride on rumors that it, too, would split, jumped 4⅞ points in a day. The company quickly denied the rumor, but Chrysler kept rising anyway, closed the week at the year's high at 99⅜. Aluminum stocks started climbing at word that Western Electric, biggest U.S. user of copper...