Word: groundless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airlines' major fears has turned out to be groundless. The military had warned the lines that one of the biggest dangers would be sucking objects into the jet intake, especially on takeoff. So far neither Pan American. Trans World Airlines nor National Airlines has had a single case of engine damage either from nuts and bolts picked up on the runway or from birds in the air. American has had only one case-and it ended happily. Taking off from New York's Idlewild Airport, an American 707 on a training flight plowed through a flock of seagulls...
...sales estimate: $178 million) Preussag mining combine, whose activities range from coal mining to oil refining. The government took the step with some misgivings: a 1958 poll seemed to indicate that 40% of all Germans had little knowledge of stock, and presumably little interest. The doubts were groundless. The shares were snapped up so fast that the Bonn government decided last week to allot an additional 530,000 shares to subscribers...
...Groundless Fears. Brooks Atkinson is also one of the few U.S. theater critics who earned a byline as a topnight newsman. After a ten-month tour as the Times's-Moscow correspondent in 1945, Atkinson won a Pulitzer Prize for his clear-focused reporting on conditions inside Russia. During World War II, he persuaded the Times to send him off as a war correspondent, spent two rugged years leapfrogging the war in China, Burma and India...
...crabbier with age, Veteran Atkinson seems to some theatergoers to have mellowed. After the Times covered the Sardi's party in its theater-review format under the headline FOR (NOT BY) BROOKS ATKINSON, some readers wondered how he could bring himself to rap another play. Their fears proved groundless. That night Critic Atkinson left the opening performance of Norman Krasna's Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (see THEATER), strode two blocks to the Times and neatly scribbled a panning review...
Special Sickness. Next day, as if determined to convince the newsmen that their fears were groundless, Ike took on a jampacked schedule. In the morning he drove out to suburban Rocquencourt to visit SHAPE-the NATO military headquarters which he established in 1951. Ignoring the freezing wind, Ike stood at salute through the Marseillaise and The Star-Spangled Banner, then set off on a tour of the headquarters with U.S. General Lauris Norstad. the man who now holds his old job as SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe). After a quick look at the office that he left...