Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...utter contempt for the Old Bolsheviks' sentimental, old-grad memories and their pious reverence for the prophets Marx and Engels. "It is impossible to believe," wrote a British observer, "that there is no contempt in [Malenkov's] eye as he watches older men putting themselves through absurd and elaborate contortions to reconcile what is with what was supposed to be. His is the world that is." Apparently he did not mind being considered a heretic by such passionately doctrinaire Marxists as Andrei Zhdanov (touted frequently in the mid-'40s as Stalin's heir apparent). In fact...
Some students, furthermore, find it inconvenient to use University lots because they must use their cars frequently. It is absurd to expect them to walk to the Business School lot several times a day to get their cars...
Thorez continued to give the orders from Moscow, and Tillon, 55, was given a distasteful job: working for Stalin's phony "peace crusade." Marty and Tillon called it ridiculous and absurd. What they wanted was riots, strikes, rebellion. Last May, when General Ridgway arrived in Paris, Marty organized Red riots which failed miserably and ended with the arrest of Jacques Duclos, No. 2 man of French Communism and in charge of the party while Thorez is away. To make matters worse, Marty used Duclos' month in jail to carry out a quick, private purge of the French Communist...
Author Halsey's arguments are often narrow and sometimes absurd. She writes, in fact, as if the split between God and Mammon had not plagued man from the beginning. Nonetheless, her book is the work of an earnest armchair moralist with an honored American tradition behind her. If, as is very likely, The Folks at Home puts Author Halsey back into the moneymaking nightmare, it will be because she has laid a tremulous but honest finger on a national nerve...
John Foster Dulles fired back. It is "absurd," said Dulles, to suggest that Eisenhower was proposing war or "wholesale insurrection by unarmed slaves . . . There are countless peaceful ways by which the task of the Russian despots can be made so unbearably difficult that they will renounce their rule. That was shown in Yugoslavia. Prolonged unwillingness to try new methods in solving international problems is ... endangering our own safety as Russian conquests are being consolidated against us ... General Eisenhower's policies are the true peace policies . . . We can trust the man who won peace, rather than the man who lost...