Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee head called "absurd" Moore's statement that the HYRC did not lend its support after the Council issued the statement last Monday night because it had no time to consider such a step...
...secrecy code, restricting the use of secret classifications in 17 departments and agencies and forbidding them altogether in 28 others, e.g., the Fine Arts Commission, the Committee on Purchases of Blind-Made Products. The new code will make information more easily available to the press, will eliminate excessive and absurd classification of most Government documents...
...Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent, and India's strapping Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya stepped out. "This is absurd," said he. "It's got to stop." He promptly ordered a ten-minute recess for every tent, and instructed his officers to see that explanations were not dragged on after the P.W.s' intentions had been made clear. "Are you expecting any more trouble?" someone asked him. "Not from...
...weeks ago, a student football manager was caught scalping tickets. Informed of the charge, his immediate superior said "the implications made regarding the football community are absurd and not worthy. of comment." This statement reminded the University that the students and officials who devote their time to the Harvard football team form a close-knit community with a long and proud tradition. But insofar as it implied this case was unique, the retort was dead wrong. In the last two days it has become unmistakably clear that there is something rotten in the "football community...
This farce treatment fits every absurd turn of plot. The exaggeration may not always be good Shaw, but it is consistently bouyant entertainment. An extra attraction is added after curtain calls, as Green runs through some of the top songs from his D'Oyly-Carte days...