Word: rumorings
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...reluctantly with a complicated and grudging awareness about themselves and their orgies of fossil burning. But they are still in the quibbling stage, in what psychologists call a period of "defensive avoidance." The gas lines that started in California and have begun to spread across the country like a rumor are still open to confusing interpretations: Are they a temporary inconvenience or ominous intimations of the future? The last gas crisis, in 1973-74, subsided soon enough. Perhaps this one will as well? According to the Gallup poll, more than three-quarters of Americans still believe that current gasoline shortages...
...Rumor has it Martha had to nag at George to get him to sit for the painting; she must have angered Stuart because he made Martha's nose awfully big and didn't even stick around to finish the portraits. Even so, the paintings are nice and all, but Gilbert Stuart, the artist (who is very famous) isn't even from Boston (he was born in Rhode Island, poor devil) and George came to Boston with his army only a couple of times. So does Boston really have a claim...
Philip Caputo's 1977 memoir, A Rumor of War, another excellent and painfully earned book, recalls how he was inspired by John Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you ..." Caputo joined the Marines: "Having known nothing but security, comfort, and peace, I hungered for danger, challenges, and violence." At the end of his three-year enlistment, Caputo writes, "I came home from the war with the curious feeling that I had grown older than my father, who was then 51 ... Once I had seen pigs eating napalm-charred corpses-a memorable sight, pigs eating...
...except on the 100-yd. stretch of Changan Avenue at Xidan Street that has become known as democracy wall. A People's Daily editorial, which accompanied the edict, warned against "gatherings and parades that block traffic, attacks on the party, government and military organs," and "other acts of rumor-mongering and troublemaking...
Similar trade-offs are being made in admissions offices around the Ivy League. The bartering is purely intramural. Contrary to rumor, the Ivy schools are not involved in a conspiracy. They get together only to make certain that financial-aid applicants are offered the same tuition reductions at every school. If Brown's admissions committee has given A's to more needy students than the college can afford with its $1.25 million financial-aid budget, a few A's will become Z's, a cutback Brown has been forced to make only twice in ten years...