Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want mass demonstrations. All the 'Hey, Ho, Derck Bok' stuff is just absurd. But I would like to address the administration directly and with well-articulated arguments," he said...
...exotic place with the most exotic people in North America, but making every Texan as a most honest, least scrupulous, or add-your-own-superlative adjective variation on John Wayne just isn't real. Otto McNab, the Mexican-killingest, honestest, independentest, good-community-manest Texas Ranger is almost so absurd that the book becomes humor rather than drama. There were some pretty tough Rangers, but none so epic in every quality...
...that makes the 53-0 score that much more absurd...
Harvard's kicking game--including the often ignored areas of returns and coverage, in addition to kicking and punting--is easily the best in the league on paper and on the field. Given the facts, it seems absurd for Mr. Zucker to have called the kicking games of the two teams a toss-up in his analysis...
...Gorbachev declared that the man had "breached our laws and was sentenced by court for that." But Gorbachev flushed and swallowed hard when Interviewer Yves Mourousi asked whether it is true that there are 4 million political prisoners in the Soviet Union. The Soviet leader called the question "absurd, that recalls the propa- ganda of (Josef) Goebbels," the Nazi minister...