Word: rumoring
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...against the Communist jungle-fighter, Piao, except that he was occasionally noisy and sometimes insubordinate, that he once lit a fire when his commanding officer told him not to and that, in the early days of liberation from the Japanese, he had been befriended by Chinese Nationalists. Nevertheless, the rumor spread that Piao was a spy. His trial took place in the middle of the Malayan jungle...
...first general audience since recovering from his 57-day siege with a stomach ailment, Pope Pius XII, borne into St. Peter's Basilica on his portable throne, was greeted by thousands of schoolchildren who cheered him for ten solid minutes. Earlier last week Vatican officials again dismissed the rumor that the Pope plans to retire to a monastery because of failing health. For the first time, however, they reportedly admitted that he had despondently considered relinquishing some of his duties last February when his sickness was gravest...
...problem with leopards, which were eating all the pigs, which had been imported to eat caterpillars, which had been eating pine trees, and the rangers still needed the leopards to keep down the baboon population. On checking, the item turned out to be a two-year-old false rumor. Sometimes, however, an item improves in checking. For example, when w?e double-checked a suggestion about a Boston dancer who had consumed a monstrous, $12 restaurant breakfast, we found it was not only true, but that she had done it again a week later (TIME...
Last week, as they have for centuries of pestilence and peace and rumor of the world's destruction, the Benedictines were busy building their hives of holy industry around the world. On Monte Cassino, St. Benedict's greatest monastery, laid waste in World War II for the fourth time in its history, was about rebuilt again. And on 2,500 rolling acres at Collegeville, Minn., about 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis, work was getting under way on a Benedictine abbey which the editor of Liturgical Arts magazine has called "truly a milestone in the evolution of the architecture...
...Rumor has it that the campus Young Republicans are planning to riot when you arrive; but don't worry, we'll protect your baggage...