Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist doctors and medical orderlies at Koje hospital staged a sitdown strike for better food, the right to take regular sunbaths, and the removal of South Korean guards. "Damned absurd!" roared General Boatner. He ordered the strikers to report to him; when they balked, he clapped them behind bars...
That was just what Nam II needed. In one of the truce tents Nam read from Colson's message and declared: "Your absurd principle of voluntary repatriation has collapsed in utter bankruptcy...
...censorship" at its convention just ended (TIME, May 5), got rapped across the knuckles for the same offense. Noting that A.N.P.A. had barred reporters from its meetings on "suppression of the news," newspapering's trade magazine Editor & Publisher last week observed: "Has it ever occurred to you . . . how absurd you must appear? . . . You should practice what you preach...
Critic George Jean Nathan was once told that an angry theatrical producer had called him a pinhead. "That is on the face of it absurd," retorted Nathan. " Tin-head' is a two-syllable word." The dean of U.S. drama critics has been nipping his lip at the American theater and the people in it for 46 seasons. He has outlasted the combined Broadway runs of Abie's Irish Rose, Tobacco Road and Oklahoma!-and in continuous performance. Plays have to ring down the curtain around 11 p.m.; Nathan never does...
...Italy's best jurists pulled their chins over the puzzling problem of whether or not a dictator's mistress "carries out functions which can be compared to those of a public official." Last week the Petacci lawyers filed what they hoped was a final brief. "It is absurd," they said, "as argued by the state, that the loves of dictators are carried out in the service of the state." But the court was not so sure. It gave the government two more months to think up a good answer...