Word: rumoring
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...extend the draft. If McCarthy and his investigations strayed too far from their proper pastures, he would comment on them; meanwhile, he said, it would be improper to express an opinion. Only once did the President's voice show a slight edge-when he emphatically denied a rumor that there was a rift between Bob Taft and himself...
Spot of Sun. Then came last month's storm (TIME, Feb. 9), which broke through Belgium's dikes and turned a catty rumor into a constitutional ruckus. While British and Dutch royalty went personally to the aid of their hard-hit subjects, ailing King Baudouin took off with his father and stepmother for a spot of winter sunshine on the French Riviera. The Brussels press exploded. Newspapers, ordinarily respectful of the monarchy, front-paged pictures of the royal sunbathers side by side with photos of their flooded countrymen. A quick return and a tour of the worst...
Misalliance (by George Bernard Shaw) has long had a reputation for being virtually unplayable. Very likely this rumor got around because for years few people ever saw it played. Performed on Broadway last week for the first time since 1917, it pranced and hallooed and came hilariously to life, giving further reason for saluting Shaw's ghost with: "This was the noblest showman of them...
More than one U.S. educator felt he had good reason for fear. "You have today," said President Henry M. Wriston of Brown, "a bullying of the intellectuals of the United States which is intolerable . . . Whenever by slander, by innuendo, by rumor, investigators start to throw mud at the colleges, then every alumnus in every institution of the United States should rise up and say, this has got to stop...
...court for a reversal of Judge Valente's ban. The strongest argument they had was that the ban was a threat to both fair trials and press freedom. After one week of the ban, they also had a strong practical argument for reopening the trial in the gossip, rumor and biased information that had come out of the courtroom, unrestricted by the facts of a court transcript...