Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis technique he had interesting observations; how the innocent press of the world plays the Axis game by employing "terror symbols" systematically used by the Axis radio: words like "annihilated," "total," "paralyzing," etc. How "the use of absurd exaggerations and fantastic assertions is an essential part of the German strategy. It removes to a large extent the stigma attached to propaganda by giving to it an appearance of ballyhoo"-i.e., something which the U.S. radio audience has long been conditioned to accept good-humoredly...
...This harassing litigation and the unjustified demand for the absurd sum of $10,000,000 . . . are not in key with the American war effort...
Sirs: Your warning in TIME, Dec. 22, that the "few rules of thumb" listed for telling Chinese from Japanese are "not always reliable" is an unparalleled masterpiece of understatement. Such absurd generalities as "Japanese are nervous in conversation, laugh loudly at the wrong time," or "most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles" would have certainly made the eminent Dr. Samuel Johnson apoplectic. ... I feel the appropriateness of an admonishing Tsk ! Tsk ! MARTIN J. KATZ Philadelphia...
...Faced Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a practically perfect example of how wrong Hollywood can be when it gets off the beam. A slapsticky remake of a 1925 farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...
...agents of the world-wide German revolution had been working for years in preparation for disrupting and devastating civil war which would be ignited at an appropriate time-truly patriotic men might have preferred to believe "responsible" and "official" professions made in cordially smiling interviews that it was "absurd" that anyone should think that American security was or could be in jeopardy...