Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambassador's $27,500-a-year salary and allowances), but he has always managed to combine the graces of a patrician upbringing with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York Social Register because he considered it "a travesty of democracy . . . with absurd notions as to who is and who isn't socially acceptable." When a Florida businessman tried to drive a hard real-estate bargain by whining that he had started life with a pushcart, Jock Whitney urbanely sent back word that Jock Whitney "may not have started off with a pushcart...
...effort toward European unity, impatient at "lip service" and "halfway measures toward that end as he has been active and ardent in support of practical progress." "To believe that we can still defend our selves, by ourselves," he told the Belgians last year, in support of NATO "is completely absurd." And he added: "For me, NATO must also be the political center of the West." Speaking in Moscow at the time of the Suez invasion and the Russian intervention in Hungary, he came back to denounce U.N., privately but in strong terms, for being ineffectual. Personality: Sometimes called a "junior...
...loan was conditioned on an economic house cleaning. Bolivia agreed to: ¶Stop printing new money, and boost taxes to make up the deficit. ¶Freeze all hiring in the mines, and let the payroll drop back through attrition. ¶I Free all currency transactions, -abandoning the absurd official boliviano rate of 190 to the dollar. ¶ Dump price controls and food subsidies, including those in the commissaries...
Considering the fact that the entire American cold war campaign has been based upon the assumption of cultural superiority coupled with military inferiority, it seems absurd that an intensification of the conflict should lead us to abandon our only effective weapon in the battle for men's minds. We are not, and cannot be, prepared to compete with the Russians in a get tough program. The American public, after all, will not tolerate for themselves either the political gangsterism demonstrated in the Hungarian episode, or the national impoverishment which would be required to match Soviet military potential. Our alternative must...
WHERE is the real radical, the real revolutionary, to be found in the U.S. today?'' asked American Trucking Associations President Neil J. Curry last week. His answer: "Behind the desk of any business establishment." Twenty-five years ago the claim would have sounded absurd. It still seems so to many businessmen. In his own mirror, the average U.S. businessman sees an unyielding and uncompromising conservative face; yet he has been largely responsible for the dynamic forward drive of the U.S. economy that has had a revolutionary effect on American life. As the businessman has helped to sustain economic...