Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Negroes advocate. More states' rights will no doubt disappear, though not nearly as many as some Southerners will claim they have lost. Basically, the Government still hopes that Southern justice will so improve itself that drastic federal intervention will not be necessary. The hope is not entirely groundless...
...your assessment of economic changes in the Soviet Union [Oct. 8], you write that "the Kremlin is admitting that Russia's economic engine is painfully sputtering." In confirmation, you advance the groundless argument about the Soviet Union's having lost its superiority over the U.S. in economic growth rates. There are indeed shortcomings in the Soviet economy. But that economy is developing more rapidly than envisaged by the Seven-Year Plan (1959-1965). The volume of industrial production increased 84% instead of 80% as planned. The average annual rate of industrial growth was 9.1%, more than double that...
Fears that hundreds of hungry Harvard men might swarm to Radcliffe to enjoy the wine and candlelight of Wednesday night interhouse have proved groundless...
Bellotti has concentrated on the Goldwater issue, calling Volpe "a party to the coalition of reaction." To illustrate the ex-Governor's "inhumanity," the Democratic nominee tells audiences that Volpe refused in 1962 to implment fully the Federal Manpower Retraining Act. The charge, claims Volpe, is groundless since the Act was then just beginning to oper ate: "Bellotti deals in glittering generalities about Goldwater. Just glittering generalities...
...Goldwater's victory in California and his overwhelming support among G.O.P. delegates makes us realize that our doubts about America's political maturity are not completely groundless. It is a frightening idea for us who are so strongly dependent on the U.S.A. that such a man could possibly become President...