Word: baselessness
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...they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said famed Physiologist Anton J. Carlson, president of the society: "Medical science . . . refuses to be the goat any longer for the ugliest and most baseless vilification campaign of our times...
Other Japanese saw darker reasons for the U.S. action. Last week Tokyo was rife with baseless rumors that the war criminals were being saved because the U.S. wanted their help in fighting Russia. Some even spread the fantastic tale that General Yamashita, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was turned down in 1946, had not been hanged at all and was now in the U.S. as a top military adviser. Most Japanese were simply bewildered by the legal mumbo jumbo of the inscrutable Occidentals. Many an American felt the same...
...Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press." To Kansas City it sounded like old times...
...everything from diet to psychoanalysis. In no other disease, says Dr. William Goldring of New York University, have so many different treatments been tried. Last week he reported in The American Journal of Medicine: "The history of therapy in hypertensive disease is replete with instances of unwarranted enthusiasms and baseless claims...
...Totally baseless," Belt charged. "No college professor ever suggested such a thing." He also labelled false such assertions that Adams drove a neurotic alligator to Nevada, built booby traps for Halloween Prankaters, and made over $10,000 on similar weird jobs last year...