Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because of his extreme suspicion, Stalin toyed also with the absurd and ridiculous suspicion that Voroshilov was an English agent [Laughter"). A special tapping device was installed in his home to listen to what was said there...
...would be easy to dismiss i.e. as a product of sexual repression or sheer mysticism, simply by mentioning its many absurd assertions: "At Harvard, we have absolutely no emotional life.... Harvard does not cultivate a respect for the intellect... the students who are more or less artists or intellectuals and are busy thinking and painting are all stimied." (sic) But in the midst of the inanity and polemic, i.e. expresses forcefully generally felt undergraduate fears that creeping prestige-consciousness threatens their intellectual integrity. Although i.e.'s attempt to prove that the University is somehow responsible for human vanity seems unfounded...
Peppery old (71) Socialist Norman Thomas sounded off in Houston. On free enterprise: "All the recent business mergers and consolidations make absurd the old-line talk of free enterprise. The only free enterprise in America today is small boys who shoot marbles for keeps." On the Kelly-Rainier merger "If Grace had married the mayor of Las Vegas, she wouldn't have had to produce a son to keep the place going...
...word, what happened to us. Just a minute. It seems that out handicap meant we start fifteen minutes after the rest. Absurd. We're good, but not that good...
What it did mean, however, was that the NCAA had publicly renounced its "machine." Feeling among the officials seemed to favor a return to the old methods. But such feeling is not only absurd; it is dangerous. The "machine" failed, not because a machine must fail, but because it still relied on the highly fallible human element. Until the NCAA comes up with a fully automatic judging mechanism, confusion will continue to plague its competitions