Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of FDA, Larrick fought for stiffer regulations of food additives, in 1961 prevented the sale of thalidomide because the drug was believed to cause deformed babies, and in 1963 cracked down on the sponsors of Krebiozen, whose claim that their medicine could cure cancer was proved groundless after extensive tests...
...happy pair moves in anyway and-see how groundless Hutch's fears were?-the funny old couple next door welcomes them with open arms. Guy, who is an actor, loves to go over and listen to Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer) talk about old times. Rosemary is more attracted to a girl of her own age who lives with the Castevets-it is a pity when she commits suicide by jumping out of the window. After that tragedy, the lonely Castevets grow closer than ever to Rosemary and Guy, whose acting career is suddenly beginning to go very well indeed...
...already deeply disturbed about LBJ and the War, to run. By mid-October, when Lowenstein visited Harvard in one of his frequent ten-state barnstorming tours, he was promising audiences that he had a candidate "of great prominence" who would announce his candidacy before Christmas. Many thought his optimism groundless. "Be patient," he cautioned them with a confident smile...
...Groundless as they might prove, the glimmerings of hope were remarkably prevalent last week. Bill Moyers, departing the White House press office for his new job as a newspaper publisher, said: "We can smell something. We don't know what it is, but there is something there." Maxwell Taylor, reporting to the President on his first trip back to Saigon since his 1965 resignation as U.S. ambassador there, agreed. "Something," he said, "is starting to move...
Though Rusk replied through Fanfani that he was "far from persuaded" that Hanoi had evinced "real willingness for unconditional negotiations," he left the Italian door ajar for further proposals. It was soon slammed rudely shut by Hanoi, which derided the entire exchange as "groundless fabrication...