Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Conyers, a relic of the Boer War, where he may or may not have been the hero of an absurd cavalry charge, now a court official ("standing about at Buck House"), who likes to play Gounod's Ave Maria on a cello and has late in life taken up with Freud, Jung and Adler. C| Lord Warminster, from a decayed family who "probably made their money out of the Black Death" (1348-49); he is currently spending the last of the Black Death bonanza in sponsoring left-wing causes, and is suspected of hoping that when his estate...
...tribal council. He had half an hour to commiserate with them; they had half an hour to reject his misbegotten sympathy. The Indians, in full war regalia, scalped him with little forensic grace but plenty of feeling. The tribe's executive secretary effectively refuted "the absurd and erroneous assertions of one Don Sherwood." Sherwood backed down, muttering, "I had my reservations about this...
...winksmanship, four weeks ago. His second came when U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Djakarta and told that army intelligence reported that a Nationalist Chinese battalion had landed in North Celebes to help the beleaguered rebels. Ambassador Jones knew that the report was absurd, but he also got the diplomatic point. Sukarno was demanding that the U.S. stop being "neutral" about the Indonesian civil war and take a stand...
...obviously absurd to say that the United States has reached Utopia, that it has no further need for development. The overcrowded schools, the urban slums, the obsolescent highways, and the inadequate health facilities throughout the nation give a different picture. But correction of these conditions is generally beyond the scope or daring of private enterprise. It is not, however, outside the realm of government concern, Presidents Eisenhower and Hoover to the contrary notwithstanding...
...most U.S. metal producers the plan is merely a rear-guard action against the tariff increases that they feel are necessary. Anaconda's Chairman Clyde Weed called the subsidies "unfair and absurd." Said a Kennecott official: "I can't imagine the American taxpayer making contributions to Kennecott and Anaconda...