Word: baselessness
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...York, the Archbishop's office announced that "he has been assailed by the minions of Hitler, Mussolini and other tyrants and is not surprised at renewed baseless attacks by puppets of pretenders to peace...
...Sterilization, which sometimes occurs temporarily among hospital patients treated by radiation, is one big bugaboo* of atomic energy. Tokyo stories that atomic energy was a "cure" for sterility (two older women were reported to be "like girls again" and eggless hens were said to be "rejuvenated" by radiation) were baseless...
...receive a better one. As usual, cantankerous Upton Sinclair was present-denying that he was, as TIME had said, a Bolshevik. He put TIME to bed with the Ku Klux Klan for seeming to support the candidacy of "the Klan Kandidate Koolidge." ED. allowed that the charge was baseless...
Stories of prisoners enjoying special privileges are mostly baseless. Typical is the widely circulated story that girls from a nearby town went to a dance given by German P.W.s; actually the girls went to a dance held by prison guards. Another story: the Army had let a contract for 200,000 pairs of pajamas for P.W.s; the fact was that the Army ordered the pajamas for its own men in German camps...
...self-styled liberals and other citizens of good will had plucked at the sore. The thin-skinned and irritable Negro press, which has seldom missed a report of injustice to Negro troops and has played it for all it would stand, continued to print most of the sensational and baseless yarns which flew around, from standard soldiers' gripes on up. The truth lay somewhere between such red-eyed denunciation and the bland official bunkum of some Army officers that everything was just fine...