Word: baseless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCartney proved by appearing at a Glasgow airport last week, he is indisputably alive. But so is the baseless report that he is not. What is more, the rumor is not likely to die before he does; after the event, which could occur 50 or so years from now, the last surviving mongers of this particular rumor will triumphantly crow: "I told you so." For reasons that go back to the origins of man, the human intellect craves to discover more meaning than facts can supply. What it does not know it will guess at. Airborne by ignorance and insecurity...
...personality trait, regardless of culture, that most consistently accompanies exaggerated sensitivity to pain, says Sternbach, is neurotic anxiety. This is not the anxiety associated with a specific situation, such as an impending operation, but the persistent, seemingly baseless anxiety that often has its roots in the unconscious. From many observations, Sternbach concludes: "The quiet, brooding, anxious and resentful individual is the one who is most likely to have symptoms of pain and is least able to tolerate them." By contrast, victims of the more crippling emotional illnesses, the psychoses, are far less likely to complain of pain...
...contributions, your reporter wrote, inter alia, that Biafrans are being "starved out by the Nigerians". Having embraced the theme of Ibo jewishness, Biafra sympathizers complete the plot by assigning to Nigerians the role of the monster Hitler. Such baseless attribution of sadism to Nigerians can come only from a dangerously naive mind or a totally malicious...
Senator Robert Kennedy (D.N.Y.), issued a statement that he deeply regretted the attacks. He noted that "the same king of charges were made in 1960 against President Kennedy, and the present charges are as baseless now as those were then...
...Civil Rights Act of 1957, the court not only ordered the county to repay fines collected from the defendants and to expunge all notation of the arrests and convictions from the records; but, most unusually, it also ordered the county to pay all costs incurred in defense of the baseless charges, including "reasonable" attorneys' fees...