Word: scuttlebutt
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Struggle for Power. Delgado Chalbaud, according to the scuttlebutt, has been contesting with Pérez Jiménez for army support. Llovera Páez, No. 3 man, has been an uncertain balance of power-but not a power in himself. In the scramble for sides, several hundred officers have been quietly jailed. The strategy of A.D. leaders is to keep building up strength until army strife gives them a wide-open chance to take over the government...
...Scuttlebutt. In Kansas City, whoever broke the window of the Sound Radio Service store ignored the four genuine radio sets on display, scuttled off with the only dummy...
Though Hill Jr. kept mum on his plans, tobaccomen did not think he intended to stay out of the company his grandfather and father had built to its present size.The scuttlebutt was that Hill Jr. hoped to stir up enough support from stockholders to get back in on his own terms...
...these men who say veterans would not vote for MacArthur and who for their reasons quote that unimpeachable source, "scuttlebutt?" What do they have in common? Are they former members of the general staff which was really capable of forming a comprehensive view of MacArthur? Or are they HYD's, members of the Lampoon, or the John Reed Society? Are they members of some political action group, or do they just hold a personal grudge against the general...
Skeptics suspected that the Navy, fighting doggedly against unification of the services and jealous of the Army's atomic bomb, might be tooting its horn too loudly. But there was still a fair chance that the Congressmen's scuttlebutt was based on well-hidden fact. Two novel and dreadful weapons have long been discussed, in whispers...