Word: rumoring
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...because of actual happenings at the University, partly from the people who closely watch it. Boston papers have seldom been sympathetic. Their headlines in 1938 when a Communist was appointed "teaching counselor" were twice as big as those when President Pusey was elected in 1953. Last year when a rumor came from Washington that McCarthy would travel to Boston to investigate subversive activity in the metropolitan area, one Boston paper ran a seven-column banner: "McCarthy Goes to Harvard to Clean Up Reds...
...information about Harvard's red history available, and conclude in their non sequltur manner that there really was an unusual concentration of communism here. So Harvard is blamed, rather than praised, for having its story told almost completely while activities on other campuses are still shrouded in speculation and rumor...
...reporter approached Feeney to check a rumor that one follower has recently been declared mentally incompetent and thus considered unable to manage his estate. Since the follower apparently helped support the group appreciably in the past, Feeney has reportedly had to give up the hall. This rumor has not been confirmed...
...sidewalk and stuck out his hand. "I hear you're running for governor,'' he said to the grinning, greying man in the center of the crowd. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 56, clutched the miner's hand and encircled his waist with a powerful left arm. "The rumor's out, is it?" he said. "Well, I'm trying to spread...
...strike of electricians had closed down London's dailies on the eve of the biggest British story of the year. Deprived of their newspapers, Britons became rumor-happy, seizing at stories such as one that had Churchill saying, as an excuse for staying on: "Surely Anthony could not take over without a headline...