Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have heard the rumor that Donald Harvard is interested in selling his university. I am always looking for a good, high-quality investment and would like to engage in a friendly buyout of this property...
Nigerians were warned. It only takes a touch, and you've lost them: your wallet from the back of your trousers or your manhood from the front. The rumor about vanishing male genitalia started sweeping Lagos two weeks ago, and by last week the capital was in a panic. Frightened mobs lynched or beat to death at least a dozen suspected organ robbers in crowded markets and bus stations, where being jostled by strangers is a fact of life. Nigerians were convinced that magicians could remove the male jewels at a touch, making them reappear in Lagos' witchcraft markets...
...nearing their targets). Nunn would remedy that by setting up a bipartisan group that the President would be required to consult with regularly, including times when Congress is not in session. That provision could be important; the most widely repeated war scenario on the Washington rumor circuit calls for fighting to begin in mid-November -- during the adjournment...
...Dowling tells it, the committee worked through the summer, and toward the fall, and a rumor was leaked that Murdock was the committee's first choice. Naturally, both The Boston Herald and The Boston Globe went after the story, and sent their photographers to New York to meet the ocean liner on which the Murdocks were reportedly returning from Europe...
...longer and crankier these days, thanks to chronic shortages. Biding one's time to buy soap or bread has become the form of public life most readily available to the masses. Soviets spend so much time waiting that the lines have generated a culture all their own: part rumor mill, information exchange, social club and town meeting...