Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complicated situation, one thing is perfectly clear: that a decision can be reached entirely apart from Union interference. Last March, with undergraduates behind the waitresses, they won many points. But the absurd suggestion that Harvard is not free to hire its students as it chooses will not find such friendly reception. The March contract specifically provides for such a possibility, if further proof were needed. In tenth grade English, it states that the contract applies to workers "except students who are or may be employed . . ." Harvard has granted its workers a mile; it will not be easy for them...
...World War II and with it a British-French blockade of German ports, German-Spanish trade dwindled. Oranges piled up on Valencia's docks, the iron ore of the Basque littoral could no longer be shipped to Hamburg. Generalissimo Franco, although holding Britain and France responsible for this "absurd" war, agreed to talk trade. For three months Frenchmen and Spaniards dickered. Once France broke off negotiations, said that ungrateful Spain did not realize the extent of her concessions. Spain retaliated by closing her border to what little trade had been allowed to cross the French frontier. The personable Nazi...
...than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...