Word: rumoring
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...During the 1944 campaign, anti-New Dealer Knutson unwittingly played the foil to F.D.R.'s wit by spreading an unfounded rumor: Roosevelt's pet Scottie, Fala, had been left behind during a presidential tour of the Aleutians, and a destroyer had been dispatched 1,000 miles just to bring the dog home. For F.D.R., this was a golden opportunity to add a homey touch to his famed Teamsters' Union address: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons . . . They now include my little dog Fala...
...kill each other with pistols as they stood over their mother's grave. Isham did his part, and Lilburn went down dying. But Lilburn failed to kill his brother. Isham, unscratched, was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. Instead, he broke out of jail, and later the rumor went that he was killed in New Orleans, fighting against the British under Andy Jackson...
Beginning in Bordeaux. The strike began in Bordeaux among the poorly paid postal workers. Rumor gave it wings. French workers, squeezed in the economic scissors of higher prices and stationary wages, worried that the new Premier, Joseph Laniel, was planning to economize at their expense. They got their blow in first and walked...
...everything. He's gallant, handsome, debonair, wise and charming." Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green: "If it's money you're after . . . he's Mr. Moneybags himself. But don't expect this 85-year-old tennis player to lavish his wealth on a mere woman. Rumor has it that when the Senator used to take his rich constituent, Mrs. Perle Mesta, out on the town, he called for her by streetcar." Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy (43): "The rough-and-ready type . . . He's eagerly sought after by right-wing Republican dowagers . . . Joe may need...
...last year, anxiety-prone Argentine Chess Champion Miguel Najdorf seemed in terrible physical shape all the while he matched moves with chainsmoking U.S. Champion Samuel Reshevsky (TIME, Oct. 20). Najdorf was soundly beaten, eleven games to seven. Soon a rumor, whipped up by the Argentine weekly newspaper Verdad (Truth), swept across the pampas: the nefarious yanquis had doped Najdorf's coffee. Back home, making no sportsmanlike denial of the nasty tiding, Najdorf instead cried for revenge. He finally persuaded Argentina's Chess Federation to put up about $3,000 for his enemy to come south for a comeuppance...