Word: spuriousness
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...addition, three historians claimed last week that they had been shown, months or years ago, apparently spurious Hitler-related items that they now contend came from Stern's supposedly top-secret discovery. Joachim Fest, writer of book and film biographies of Hitler and a co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, says, "A not insignificant part of what I was shown was convincing, but doubt won out." Irving said he had seen what he calls a forged letter, supposedly written to Hitler by his Deputy Chancellor Rudolf Hess. Professor Eberhard Jäckel of Stuttgart University lost interest...
...spirit-soaked pages of Moscow Circles are a grim testimony to the destructiveness of alcoholism in the Soviet Union--Erofeev makes it clear he's lived through it himself--the novel's implications reach far beyond the topical or the social. Erofeev's alcoholic innocence is ultimately a spurious from of escape: "I have seen the world close to and from a distance, from within and from without, I understand it but I cannot accept it...I am the soberest man on earth...
Losses from counterfeit cards alone are running about $30 million annually, but that is only a fraction of the roughly $400 million that will be taken this year in spurious credit-card transactions. Thanks to a 1971 federal law, a consumer's liability in theft or fraud is limited to $50 per card; the cost is usually absorbed by either the bank or the company issuing the card. Eventually, however, the losses drive up the cost of goods and consumer credit...
...were feeling the brunt of a national economic downturn for the first time in more than two decades. Democrats came out in droves to help Populist Attorney General Mark White ambush Republican Governor Bill Clements. White roused the voters not only over the economy but also with the somewhat spurious charge that the Governor should be held accountable for high utility rates. The Texas G.O.P. took a "shellacking," said the defeated Clements, who was one of Reagan's most loyal boosters...
...Michigan Gov. George Romney did himself in when he admitted he had been "brainwashed" into supporting the Vietnam War. Seeking the Democratic nod for the Oval Office four years later, Maine Sen Edmond S. Muskie permanently crippled his front-running campaign when he publicly wept in response to spurious charges about his wife leveled by the tasteless Manchester Union Leader...