Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rumor has it that students at the University of Miami are lining up outside travel agencies to get their Fun-in-the-Sun packages--four days of 70 degree weather in New England, guaranteed spots on the steps of Memorial Church for tanning, free sailing and surfing on the Charles...
...social ideology, the practice seems simplistic and self-serving. There is, for example, her use of the familiar tale about the founding of the Bingham fortune. Grandfather Robert, "the Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal charge. Time and again, Bingham prefers the rumor. It not only makes better gossip, but it fits in with her male-bashing thesis. It also allows her to note that the Binghams got their...
...Soviet spokesman Gerasimov denied the allegations and said six of the ringleaders of the protest, all from the Karabakh Committee, had been jailed. The Armenian distrust has become so explosive that the Soviet army positioned tanks at main intersections in Yerevan. Pravda blamed the Karabakh group for spreading a rumor that the disaster was the result of a nuclear explosion detonated by Moscow. Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya reported that a convoy carrying aid from Azerbaijan to the earthquake area had been attacked and turned back by gangs of Armenian youths...
During this week's baseball meetings in Atlanta, rumor had it that Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt would no longer be playing in the City of Brotherly Love...
Even Boston Garden is under siege. The rumor is that the people with the TNT are actually Bruins and Celtics fans who just want a new Garden...