Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlivened only by an occasional witty or brilliant examination, and by the opportunity to discuss the answers with his colleagues. The student can't help regarding his grader as a mysterious nonentity who lurks in the corners during lectures and whose mental processes are utterly incomprehensible except for occasional rumor: "easy," "a bastard," etc. Most graders lack the time to comment on exams, and some courses even refuse to return them on request...
...reason remains for saving the Howard. Rumor has it that Father Miller's ghost, which comes back every April 25 to haunt the Athenaeum and to repeat its favorite little couplet, may take its prophesying elsewhere if the building is demolished--perhaps even to the offices of the City Planning Board...
...repudiated. Later, the outside world in its total corruption is personified, as it has been so often before in novels, by a British popular journalist, and ex-London Timesman Greene must be presumed to know his type faces. Montagu Parkinson is in the Congo "for the riot," but a rumor about Querry and his newsworthy sanctity causes him to stop off at the leper hospital for a feature story...
According to rumor, all students would go to Nigeria, but Monro said other nations are still under consideration. Tanganyika is reportedly one of them...
...attempt, but that U.S. officials knew the name of one. The Pentagon hastily repudiated Hickman's admittedly unofficial information, adding that the Air Force had "absolutely no evidence" to support the assertion. But last week came a Washington whisper that the Pentagon did indeed have evidence. The new rumor: that U.S. radio-telemetry had picked up the heartbeat of one or possibly two Soviet astronauts as they sat in their capsule in heavily wired space suits that automatically transmitted detailed information on their physiological reactions to Soviet ground control stations...