Word: rumoring
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...cement his hold on power. According to this theory, he died when the original plot to kill only his bodyguard was hijacked by foreign agents. For six months, the trial of 13 alleged conspirators accused of killing the pro-reform Prime Minister has served mainly to stoke the rumor mill. The testimony last week of the infamous ex-paramilitary boss Milorad Lukovic - the man police say orchestrated the hit - seemed calculated to send the proceedings spinning out of control. Before his court appearance, Lukovic's attorney had promised his client would provide "irrefutable evidence" proving who was behind the killing...
...with Iraq in secret using data the CIA widely believed weren't supportable or were just plain false. Instead of fighting back, Bamford argues, the CIA for the most part rolled over and went along. The result was a war sold largely on a fiction, confected from unchecked rumor and biased informants...
...anticommunist witch hunt. Reagan had been reflexively left-wing in the '30s and '40s. Edmund Morris, his authorized biographer, believes the story that Reagan had tried to join the Communist Party but was rejected on the grounds that he would be more valuable as a fellow traveler (a rumor Reagan blithely denied to Morris in 1987). By the early '50s, though, Reagan had turned firmly and forever to the right. His confidence as a speaker and SAG boss nudged him into pitchman and executive roles--first as the host of TV's General Electric Theatre and Death Valley Days, then...
...Harvard faculty member says this rumor had been taken seriously enough to provoke informal inquiries into its truth, but that these inquiries had concluded that the story was “simply fabrication” produced by “a person with a vendetta against The New York Times” and against Mitchell...
...They should call it Stalker.com,” the faculty member says of the site which reported the nameless rumor...