Word: rumoring
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...excitement grew and spread. In Phenix City (Alabama's "sin city" on the Georgia boundary), there was a rumor that the fireball was a flying saucer and that at least one invader from space had been seen bailing out of it. Most other observers thought it was a burning airplane. Acting on this theory, Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery sent 40 airplanes crisscrossing Alabama, looking for the wreckage. When Air Force authorities learned that the black stone had scored a hit on Mrs. Hodges, they sent a helicopter, which landed in the Sylacauga schoolyard...
Britain's Wolfson, according to a Ward official, had "approached" Avery. The rumor around Ward's was that Isaac Wolfson offered to buy a big chunk of Ward's stock if he could have a voice in management and use Ward's stores to sell the products of his furniture and clothing factories. Avery would stay on as chairman...
...issue in New Zealand's current election campaign is the rumor (since denied) that the U.S. is planning to use Antarctica, 1,800 miles south of New Zealand, as an H-bomb testing ground. New Zealanders feel that 1,800 miles is not enough to shield them from the radioactive aftermath of hydrogen explosions...
Like his father, Louis Mountbatten had felt the sting of vicious tongues, as envious enemies gossiped freely about his undue influence at court and the purported leftist leanings of himself and his wife Edwina. When the first rumor of his new appointment leaked out some months ago, Lord Beaverbrook protested in his Sunday Express: "If it is offered he should refuse it." But, as last Viceroy of British India, as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and lately as head of all NATO naval forces in the Mediterranean, Earl Mountbatten has shown himself an able officer. Last week, even Beaverbrook...
Cold weather recently stopped the official digging, and police are frustrating the free lancers. Spina, the mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...