Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this absurd and perilous situation, the French decided that the moment was propitious to declare Viet Nam completely independent, and handed over their last control of the Vietnamese police and courts. The Communists were more industrious. In the neighboring kingdom of Laos, they assassinated Defense Minister Kou Voravong with a shot in the back, hurled hand grenades into the house of the Foreign Minister. Unless the Diem-Hinh fight was quickly settled, the Viet Minh would not have to bother with hand grenades in Viet...
Mendès-France indignantly denies the accusations of those who imply that he intends to junk the Atlantic alliance. His denials are well justified, for to anyone who knows the moral strength and courage he has shown during the war years, the accusations are absurd. There should be no doubt about the sincerity of his repeated declarations in favor of the Atlantic alliance; only these declarations mean nothing. In politics intentions mean less than the consequences of our actions. Benes did not want the Sovietization of his country; the Roosevelt government did not intend to deliver a hundred million...
...deep-seated cleavage over my purpose to relate the university to the public-school system of the state. It disturbs the smug group that wants to maintain a self-satisfied and narrow view of the university. They want to make it a sort of Princeton in the absurd social sense in which-Princeton is pictured sometimes-a sort of F. Scott Fitzgerald Princeton...
Confronted with this request, Indiana's Republican Senator William E. Jenner, chairman of Judiciary's Internal Security subcommittee, dismissed it with a word: "Absurd...
...younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer. "Now how can one say who is best among different categories...