Word: rumoring
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Such hero-worshiping frenzy nurtured flames of nationalism that already were licking at the bright achievement itself. Nepalese busily spread the rumor that Tenzing had first gained the summit, then hauled up the New Zealander, who was too weak to make it alone. This provoked Colonel Hunt to turn rumor into row by insisting that it was Hillary who led all the way. Hunt also observed, with a patronizing qualification, that "Tenzing is a brilliant climber, within the limitations of his experience...
...Oregon's Wayne Morse flew home from Washington last week to be guest of honor and chief speaker at the Democrats' Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Portland, a political rumor whooshed in ahead of him. Its component parts: 1) Independent, ex-Republican Morse, whose term in the Senate does not expire until 1956, will run for Senator in 1954, on the Democratic ticket and against Republican Guy Cordon; 2) if Morse wins, his pull on independent and liberal Republican voters might also sweep a Democratic governor into office; 3) Morse would resign his present Senate seat to take...
...record crowd (750) at the Portland banquet waited expectantly, through 30 pages of a Morse speech, to hear the rumor confirmed. But the Senator confined himself to belaboring the Eisenhower Administration and raking the public-power policies of Oregon's No. 1 Republican, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. The audience cheered most loudly when Morse pledged allegiance to his hosts. "Liberalism in the Republican Party," he declaimed, "is dead. In 1954, I will campaign for the Democrats...
Later, newsmen asked Morse directly about the 1954 rumor. He retorted: "Sheer nonsense." The Democrats' likeliest gubernatorial candidate in 1954, prolific magazine writer and State Senator Richard Neuberger, echoed the sentiment. Said Neuberger: he wanted no part in such "shenanigans" or "politics by gimmick." Besides, he added, "Democrats ought to know a lot more about Morse before welcoming him with open arms...
...plunge into colleges like so many amateur sleuths, President Eisenhower might appoint a group of distinguished lawyers and judges officially unaffiliated with universities to do the investigating. Such a committee would have a better idea of just what is a subversive influence, and they wouldn't scream every unconfirmed rumor into a banner headline...