Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rawls's favorite story about his athletic pursuits involves a rumor that started 20 years ago and is still active: that he was once a member of the New York Yankees. "I wasn't, really, ever a player. It's only a rumor. When I belonged to Leverett House the Junior Common Room challenged the Senior Common Room to a game. I played for the Senior Common Room, and I had a good day. I guess, and the Senior Common Room beat the Junior Common Room for the first time...
...odds and ends, and he said that he heard the Senior Common Room had won because some ringer had played for the team that day. And I said as a joke. 'Oh, come on, tell them I used to play for the Yankees,' and that's how the rumor got started, I guess...
...Rumor has it that Fabriquante later tried to get Stuyvesant faculty to cosign a letter to Harvard stating that Weinstein was emotionally disturbed. No one agreed, though, and Weinstein ended up in Cambridge. "Anders was a brilliant student destined for great things," says Stuyvesant English Department Chairman William Ince. "But there was always a clown in him that...
...should not be so important. I am trying to remedy that. I am trying to improve, but I have made her my talisman: if she is happy, then I am not my mother." Her father, from whom she has been estranged for years, has disappeared from his old haunts. Rumor has it that he is in Cambodia, doing penance for past sins by treating the victims of the war in Viet Nam. Lily decides to "find him in order...
...plans to appease football enthusiasts everywhere, however, with its presentation of a Canadian Football League doubleheader featuring well-known personalities from the 11th round of the NFL college draft. And since the CFL doesn't play on Mondays (people are still wondering if the CFL really plays at all), rumor has it that ABC will instead feature back-to-back action-packed episodes of "Wild Kingdom" and "In Search...