Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them gave Napoleon ceaseless trouble. Pauline, an apparent nymphomaniac, had herself sculpted in the nude by Canova, slept indiscriminately with ambassadors and tradesmen, and fostered the rumor that she was engaged in an incestuous affair with Napoleon himself. The brothers and sisters squabbled among themselves about whose titles took precedence and complained regularly to Napoleon about details of protocol at the court (Elisa and Caroline never forgave him for seating them on stools at one state reception when they felt their rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they...
...parlous are the finances of the News-Call Bulletin, Hearst's afternoon paper in San Francisco, that recurrent rumors of doom wheel above it like vultures. Only last month, a new rumor began circling: the News-Call Bulletin would soon be absorbed by Hearst's other San Francisco paper, the Examiner, which would then switch from a.m. to p.m. to avoid unprofitable competition with the city's third daily, the morning Chronicle. Last week, with weary indignation, the Examiner took to print to try to shoo off the rumor: "There is absolutely no foundation in any report...
...Hozahner in Excelsis." Malicious rumor has it that some Boston confessors require penitents, as reparation for their sins, to sit through one of the cardinal's sermons, which seem to be measured in units of eternity rather than time. Millions of Americans caught their first glimpse of the Cushing style at the 1961 presidential inauguration, when his windy, ear-shattering invocation was interrupted by a fire in the loudspeaker wiring. One viewer protesting the length of the prayer wrote to Cushing that the smoke represented "the Devil asking for equal time." Now Cushing says sadly: "I thought...
...called to Ward F, a slum-ridden and low-income-housing area that is home to most of Jersey City's 47,000 Negroes. They arrested a Negro woman for drunkenness, also took into custody a Negro man for interfering with the arrest. Almost instantly there mushroomed a rumor that the police had beaten the woman. Within half an hour, 20 Negroes were demonstrating at the Fourth Precinct station house; before long, 800 angry Negroes were milling around a Ward-F housing project looking for trouble. It wasn't long in coming...
...Yank discoverer, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Canadians were particularly pleased when one of their own companies seemed on the verge of its own strike. It was only a small company with a long-shot name-Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd.-but it began moving quickly on faith, hope and rumor...