Word: rumoring
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...noticed the defendamerica posting, but it pinged around the Web and eventually helped create one of the most dubious e-mail phenomena since ads for penis enhancement: the rumor that if he is re-elected, President Bush plans to reinstate the draft...
...more accurately, turned itself upside down—accommodating the team. In addition to providing a police motorcade that sped through red lights to and from the practice course, men with large guns were stationed every 100 meters or so along the course. The team stayed in a hotel rumored to be run by the mafia—a rumor made very believeable by the fact that in the window of every floor was a man with a large...
...adding weight to the rumor, Laursen admitted visiting the Danilovsky Monastery—the original home of the bells—while in Moscow with his family this summer...
...Indeed, until Tuesday, the bill had seen its last action twenty months ago, when it was referred to a subcommittee. It was never even given a hearing. And it never would have seen the House floor were it not for the Republican leadership’s need to counter rumor-mongers like McGregor who made people fear that the bill was just a clever acronym away from being passed...
Unfortunately, McGregor has not been alone in stoking unfounded fear about H.R. 163. Andre Heinz, John Kerry’s stepson, said in an interview last month that “we now have the specter of a draft looming...a draft that, rumor has it, won’t give you the luxury of deferment.” This rumor is an apparent reference to the deferment restrictions...