Word: baselessness
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...charmer (Fredric March) who dabbles at art and meddles in lives-with the rich wife who knows him for what he is and even puts up with all he isn't. He buzzes, jollies, flirts, cajoles, tipsily involves the French niece in a minor small-town scandal. Though baseless in itself, the scandal manages to shake up the other people into auditing their close-to-bankrupt lives...
Donald L. Wilmer '47, 3G, a spokesman for the Law School group, associated with the case in question, said the concession was "strictly second grade stuff. It could only have been written by the defendant." He added that the charge was "completely baseless and with no foundation in fact...
...many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen. Many of their fears are baseless, but, says noted Gynecologist James Ramsdell Bloss in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, it does little good merely to pooh-pooh them. By the time the expectant mother has listened to all the superstitions lurking in old wives' tales, heard the faddists explain the newest wrinkle in anesthesia, and read, in the women's magazines, about the latest mysterious blood factor, her fears have become very real...
...Japan after Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy had called him "a bad security risk" whose "Communist affiliations are well-known." The board's findings, said a spokesman, had been held up while it investigated "a rumor from the Far East." The rumor, he said, had been "found baseless...
Said Russell Watson, attorney for Waksman and Rutgers: "Baseless and preposterous . . . Dr. Schatz's work . . . was performed as a carefully supervised laboratory assistant...