Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Mikoyan would lay down the law to Castro, ordering him to get out of the big boys' way. But on his way to Havana, Mikoyan stopped off in New York for chats at the U.N., declared that U.S. news stories about his visit to Cuba were "absolutely groundless guesses and fantasies." What was more, Mikoyan strongly endorsed Castro's preposterous propositions. The Soviet Union, said Mikoyan, "considers them just...
...this country." As late as 1945, a Southern Congressman told the House that "practically every department is now infested with those who see eye to eye with Frankfurter-the Rasputin of this Administration." ∙ But fears that Frankfurter would be a flaming radical on the bench proved to be groundless. Instead, he became the Supreme Court's most consistent and articulate advocate of "judicial restraint" -the concept that the lawmaking function rests with the legislatures, not the courts. He liked to quote a remark that his friend and hero, Oliver Wendell Holmes, made in his gos: "About 75 years...
...transfer of quarters to the Union in 1891: "There was much fear that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no punch night could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved to be groundless...
Gynecologic Disorders. Some doctors still fear that women who participate in competitive sports suffer bad effects, including masculinization and menstrual disorders. But Illinois' Dr. Gyula J. Erdelyi insists that most of these fears are groundless. Reporting last week on a study of 729 Hungarian women athletes, Dr. Erdelyi called masculinization claims highly exaggerated," said that unfavorable changes in the menstrual cycle occur no more frequently among sportswomen (about 10%) than among nonathletic females. He also studied 172 pregnant women athletes, found complications of pregnancy less frequent than among nonathletes. Labor time was generally shorter, and the frequency of Caesarean...
...going nowhere in particular. Some economists are once again talking about a mature economy, worry that there are no new breakthroughs in sight to give the nation a great forward push such as the auto and electronics did. But the past shows that such worries about the future are groundless. The pace of research is such that man's next great discovery may come next month, next week-or tomorrow...