Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terrible as it might be, however, the nation now seems used to this type of testimony, as absurd and unfair as the accusations are. The country does not expect the Committee to call the maligned teachers to testify. Nor does it expect to see any actual criminal charges brought against the accused. Although wise thinkers and reputable jurists alike have deplored this ritual, we are no longer surprised when the ceremony goes...
Albizu organized a following, the Nationalist Party, with about 1,000 members. Nothing he undertook succeeded; his plans for a civil disobedience campaign and the enrolling of a liberation army died for lack of support. Still Albizu, arrogant but a little absurd with his full mustache, uncontrolled hair and black bow tie, preached venomous hate for the U.S.; in the early '30s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes called him "a dangerous person." By 1936 Albizu's movement came to bloodshed. A Nationalist murdered the popular chief of the Insular Police, bringing on an investigation which landed Albizu...
...doubt everything, even my own doubts." He kept going back to the theme: "I have never been able to give myself up to love; there is something so ridiculous about it. Sometimes I have wanted to please some woman, but I have been so struck by the absurd figure I must be cutting that I have burst out laughing...
...states allow boards of chiropractors to pass on the professional qualifications of fellow spinal manipuulators. But Ohio is not one of them. There, a chiropractor must get his permit from a medical board of orthodox M.D.s. Chiropractor Herber Ross Reaver considered this absurd. Said he : "It's like having Catholic priests license Methodist ministers. We recognize that both are prescribing a way to heaven, but why should one tell the other what to prescribe...
...from isolationists to war-on-China-now. Six months ago, with Hoover as their spokesman, they said, "Let's sit it out alone." Today, with MacArthur as their new spokesman, they say, "Let's fight it alone." What a switch! And Taft leads them all in his absurd contradiction of himself...