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Word: absurd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...States was responsible for the Duvalier dynasty's rule, and that we should now provide aid to Haiti as a form of reparations. I personally think that both charity and self-interest should motivate us to help Haiti; but your attempt to blame this country for the Duvaliers is absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti | 2/15/1986 | See Source »

...agree. We shouldn't "pick on" SI when there are many more worthwhile objects of accusation, anger, and debate. But to say that Sports Illustrated and its 20-year-old annual swimsuit issue are somehow outside the realm of scrutiny is absurd...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Not Saying Much | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

Coming from a seasoned campaigner with a reputation for masterly verbal pyrotechnics, the words seemed slightly absurd. "God is with us!" President Ferdinand Marcos declared before a crowd of 50,000 in Davao on the southern island of Mindanao. "God knows that to protect the Filipino people, (we) must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines: Election Exit Lines | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...angry and humiliated later in the week, after the New York Times published an article claiming that Marcos' wartime record as a guerrilla fighter against the occupying Japanese, to which he makes frequent and boastful reference, was judged by the U.S. Army back in 1948 to be "fraudulent" and "absurd." Ever since his early political days Marcos has claimed to have played a hero's role as leader of a Philippine guerrilla unit called Ang Mga Maharlika (Free Men) between 1942 and 1944. An Army report squirreled away in U.S. Government archives shows that Marcos had instead deserted his guerrilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Test for Democracy | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...decision, Brieant wrote that the size of the bond the Texas law required was "just so absurd, so impractical and so expensive that it hardly bears discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribe Joins $10.5B Oil Suit | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

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