Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REPUBLICANS. In Michigan, Ford's fear of Wallace cross-over voters proved groundless. More than 400,000 Democrats and independents apparently did jump into the more exciting Republican contest-but they voted overwhelmingly for Ford. Doing so, they also deprived Carter of much support he might have had. Why did they do it? At least one motive was explained by Detroit Public Relations Counselor James P. Chapman, who supports Carter but voted for Ford: "Reagan's right-wing aggressiveness scares the hell out of me. If he gets the nomination, there's always a chance...
Thorpe's parliamentary colleagues were aghast. When one Liberal M.P. publicly asked why Thorpe did not sue for libel if the charges were groundless, the party chief's puzzling explanation was that since Scott had no money he had no hope of collecting damages. In a last attempt to prove the innocence of his relationship with Scott, Thorpe released letters he had written to him in 1961 and 1962. They failed to allay all doubts. One letter, for instance, was signed tenderly: "Yours affectionately, Jeremy. I miss you." The following day, Thorpe wrote another letter, resigning his post...
Harvard's worries proved to be groundless, however, as the Crimson totally demolished a fine Princeton squad...
...documents, a citizen need not explain who he is or why he wants the information. An FBI official complains that a Mafia don could call for information on how the agency combats organized crime. A CIA official worries more about Soviet agents getting at secrets. Such fears are probably groundless; it seems unlikely that the courts will force agencies to release information that would compromise national security or FBI methods...
...phrase it, "an absence of hope," differs from garden-variety glumness as, say, double pneumonia differs from sniffles. It is not a new ailment; doctors have known about it for centuries. But medicine has only recently learned how to treat it Merely telling a patient that his fears are groundless does no good at all. Conventional psychoanalysis is equally ineffective in most cases; Knauth visited a Freudian therapist for six months without exorcising any of his personal demons...