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Word: absurder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect the Czechoslovaks to believe the absurd conspiracies confessed so abjectly at the recent Slansky trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Stronger Than Truth Itself | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...soldiers' private soiree," and by the Moscow echoes in his speech, Allied Intelligence agents questioned him last week. Reichenau's explanation: he had salted away $1,000 a month during his 20-year stint as a military adviser to the Chinese Nationalists. Protested Von Reichenau: "It is absurd to accuse an aristocrat of cooperating with Communists . . . As others find pleasure in theater and dancing . . . I am a collector of soldiers' opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Collector of Opinions | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Most of the darts were aimed at the prizewinning coin design by 71-year-old Sculptress Mary Gillick. "Absurd to do that with the poor girl," sniffed one Londoner of Mrs. Gillick's work. "Made her look like a schoolgirl and she's really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Queen's Neck | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...Happy Place, Ludwig Bemelmans serves up the recipe that he first concocted many years ago for adult consumption ; it consists of some absurd character put down-in a setting that is just around the block and dolloped with matter-of-fact nonsense. His present hero, a city rabbit named Winthrop, is not conjured out of a top hat but from the place city rabbits normally come from-"a toy village enclosed by chicken wire and located in Section B, on the sixth floor of a big New York department store." Winthrop is first reduced from $2.98 to $1.78 because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...reasonably sane, judges, writers and the morally-minded will now agree. But each month, millions of copies of comic books, magazines, and pocket reprints and originals come into Boston and Cambridge. To check and try each one on charges of "obscenity" (if it were deemed so) would be absurd; even to read them all would be impossible. Yet all are available to six, as well as 80 year olds...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

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