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Blood. Throughout the latest round of criticism, Hoover has kept uncharacteristically quiet, apparently because Justice Department officials are worried that further intemperate remarks from the director might irreparably damage his cause. But even if Boggs' charges turn out to be groundless, Hoover's critics, scenting blood, are likely to continue to press for his resignation...
...Muslim public relations man, Walter Turner, claims that fears of a black takeover are groundless. The Muslims, he says, have no plans other than turning the farm into "the showplace of the South," to supply high-quality food to Muslim restaurants and markets in several northern cities. The modern, $750,000 farm, with its own meatpacking and vegetable-canning operations, will provide 150 badly needed jobs for black and white local residents, add taxes to the county's income, and boost the business of local suppliers. But whites, remembering the fire-eating rhetoric of Malcolm X and the violence...
Brady had just mad his triumphant return to Boston after a six year absence and his fears fortunately, are groundless. Kill George Brady? Bostonians would sooner kill Robin Hood. Brady was not apprehended for purposes of crucifixion, after he allegedly stole 8784,468 from the Mass. Parking Authority in 1963. He was apprehended so that he might, in the best James Michael Curley tradition, be ... canonized...
...transfer of quarters to the Union in 1891: "There was much fear that the new quarters would take away the espirit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no punch night could be held in the Union. Both fears proved to be groundless...
...without a brace of loaded pistols in his coat and the company of his Great Dane, Bounce. Though he never had occasion to fire the weapons in anger, and Bounce never got to take a piece out of an embittered literary footpad, Pope's anxiety was far from groundless...