Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absurd to ask the Russians to help us in settling the Indo-China conflict if we slap their faces before Geneva," said Radical-Socialist Edgar Faure, the Finance Minister. "I am hostile toward any initiative before the Geneva Conference...
...future prisoners can expect to be subjected to all sorts of torture ... My son is in the service, and I have told him: if ever captured, confess if you must. Don't give away positions or troop movements, but subjects such as germ warfare and the like are absurd. The facts will be brought to light later regardless of what they make you say about it. You have a gun at your head ... Be practical, and stay alive...
...police found a bottle containing seven more cyanide capsules, which the doctor said he had thought about using on himself. He also told the police that he intended to use the cyanide for mounting moths in a collection. The charges made by his wife, he said, were "fantastic and absurd...
...Korea Correspondent Alan Winning-ton, 44, of the Communist London Daily Worker, insisted that in covering the war from the Chinese side he was just like any other newsman on an assignment. But Winnington's actions made this claim absurd. He was one of the Communists used by the Chinese Reds to help squeeze "confessions" out of prisoners, according to such returned prisoners as U.S. Air Force Ace Colonel Walker M. Mahurin ('TIME, Sept. 21). The Communists, charged Colonel Mahurin, "continued to press me for several days, even going so far as to have a British newspaperman, Alan...
...midst of hunting, to reread his favorite author, Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, to acquire a late-in-life appreciation of Shakespeare, and to pass a disapproving critical judgment on Harvard President Eliot's new five-foot shelf of classics ("As the list, it strikes me as slightly absurd...