Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet of President Hernan Siles Zuazo. Machicado charged that the President had caved in to pressure from the powerful Bolivian Cen tral Labor Union, which led an April gen eral strike to protest belt-tightening mea sures demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Said Machicado: "This renegotiation idea is absurd...
Jerry Garcia in Harvard Stadium? The thought itself seems prima facie absurd, but that's what the Undergraduate Council almost pulled off last fall...
...PATENTLY ABSURD to portray the disruption of Caspar W. Weinberger '38's speech as a violation of freedom. It was a defense of liberty and a statement of outrage at its usurpation. The behavior exhibited by the students who shouted him down would indeed be unacceptable if Weinberger were not who he is. But as spokesman for the Reagan Administration's war policies. Weinberger has no problem getting his views across, ludicrous as they are. He has all major media at his beck and call unlike the students who stood up to his propaganda. This fact alone would...
Manufacturers Hanover denied that it suddenly needed to raise cash and called the rumors "absurd." Senior Vice President James Hambelton said the bank had one of the smallest portfolios of bad loans of any lender its size...
Sometimes a single man could overcome absurd odds. Staff Sergeant Harrison Summers of the 101st was ordered to take 15 men and attack a German artillery barracks known only as WXYZ, actually a cluster of stone farm buildings. When the 15 showed signs of reluctance, Summers somewhat recklessly decided to goad them by leading the charge himself. He kicked in a door and sprayed the room with his submachine gun. Four Germans fell dead, and the rest ran out a back door. None of Summers' men had followed him, so he alone charged the second building; the Germans fled...