Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay away. When he continues his visits anyway she confesses to her husband and begs him to save her. To her amazement, the count is not so much disturbed by her news as by the fact that she has shared it with François' mother. "It is absurd," he says We must find means of putting everything right . . . François must take part in our opening scene [at a masque they have planned]. You must choose his costume " As Mahaut looks at her husband, she sees nim at last for what...
...head it'll look just as bad." We changed places. He looked as bushy as ever. "If I were you," he said, picking up a magazine and running a self satisfied hand through his thatch, "I'd see a doctor. No sense in losing it all." "Don't be absurd," I said and angrily smoothed down my hair. "It looks fine when it's patted down." "Looks o.k. now," he said ominously, and started to read...
Congressional committees have no place investigating teachers' opinions and past affiliations, except where overt acts against the government are concerned, he maintained. "A very considerable number of current teachers flirted with communism in the '30's, but later saw the error of their ways and got out." It's absurd to penalize people for this fleeting association in the past, he stated...
...head for every man they enlist. According to the opposition German Social Democratic Party, which put up the posters, more than 90,000 young Germans, the equivalent of seven divisions, have enlisted in the legion for service in Indo-China, and 10,000 have lost their lives. "Absurd," answered the French...
...Chain Gang. The man Cubans revere as their apostle of independence was no fire-eating general, ablaze with gold braid. He was a poet-a down-at-the-heels poet with an absurd Mark Twain mustache and a burning conviction that Cubans had a right to freedom. In a short, feverish life, he laid the foundation of the movement that swept the Spanish King's men out of Cuba...