Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bullitt's] "Report on China" [TIME, Oct. 13] is diabolical and absurd...
...miss the news.. . . The headline WIFE SITS ON TAIL OF PLANE in the Daily Mail is a better headline than [our] HOLIDAY PLANE IN SEA. . . . Why does the phrase The British taxpayer must foot the bill' appear? . . . Why not 'The taxpayer pays?' The phrase is absurd and should not be used...
There is an old Massachusetts Blue Law that a man may not kiss his wife on Sunday. Equally absurd, but somewhat less hilarious, is a forty-year-old ruling of the Harvard Administrative Board that rigidly pegs the dates for Spring and Summer term make-ups squarely in the center of the October hour exam period. An inflexible examination schedule that could conceivably force a man to take a three-hour final and two hour exams in one day not only places an undue strain on the student, but also leads to unsatisfactory grades in both testing groups. Only those...
Lord Frank Gannett, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Bullitt, Columnist Walter Winchell. For Winchell, Vishinsky reserved his choicest invective: "The new American Baron Munchausen, famous . . . for his utterly absurd lies...
...early as 1943, with the war's end still two years off, the feeling of being put upon by the world began creeping into the General Staff's hush-hush memoranda, many of which Shirer quotes practically in full. It reaches a climax in Hitler's absurd will, and is still, says Shirer, an article of faith today. Though expressed repeatedly and in a dozen ways, it adds up to one bleat: we was robbed...