Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aggression against the peace camp and the enslaved Arab nations." Israel prepared to protest, both in Prague through its ambassador there, and in the U.N. Even Israel's Al Hamishmar, newspaper of the slavishly pro-Cominform Mapam Party, suddenly disillusioned, called the accusations against Oren "fantastic and absurd," an attempt to smear "a persecuted people...
...things struck Nielsen: "The absurd length of U. S. campaigns and the incredible impact of McCarthyism of your political life . . . I think the U. S. press rates a large boo for having promoted this massacre of freedom...
...turning a new page of its history. Sometimes the load is too much for his stature and he reverts (particularly where the "Thunder Box" is concerned) to scatological burlesque. Sometimes his passion for bloodshed and his awe of warriors like Ritchie-Hook so dull his intelligence that he becomes absurd. But such collapses have always been a part of Waugh. Sometimes they have seemed to be a major part, but Men at Arms argues that they are not. If his trilogy continues as well as it has begun, it will be the best British novel of World...
...believes it is "absurd" that there should be any charge that Truman and Acheson have been "soft on Communism." In fact, he continued, "They have welded together an extraordinary anti-Communist coalition and in Korea gave the world its first sample of working collective security...
...This system of joint education with Radcliffe is a fine idea," said Sir Charles, who left here in 1932. "I imagine the boys find it most stimulating and the professors most relaxing. In the old days, you know, we repeated our lectures at Radcliffe--a really absurd business...