Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...seasons ago, however, the varsity beat the Big Red on its own course, and last year it outrowed them with absurd ease by more than two and a half lengths...
...Foreign Ministers' deputies' meeting, Andrei Gromyko acted like a capricious traffic cop, changing red & green signals with bewildering speed. The 19th meeting to draw up an agenda for a Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference opened on the usual Red note: the West is the "aggressor . . . slanderous, absurd, preposterous." The meeting appeared headed for complete stalemate...
...extreme rightist group, usually hostile to the Communists, they took the side of the strikers last week. In a letter to Premier Ala, the Frontists expressed "strong suspicions" that the A.I.O.C. was provoking the workers into striking, and asked an on-the-spot investigation. (The A.I.O.C. called the charge absurd.) Ala asked the Frontists to see him. He talked to Editor Fatimi and a National Front deputy for two hours, agreed to the investigation, and the Council of Ministers promptly appointed the committee that the National Front had asked...
...months) foreign minister in Spain's Loyalist government. To the Nation's editors, Greenberg sent a 1,200-word letter charging that Del Vayo's column "invariably parallels that of Soviet propaganda." Editor-Publisher Freda Kirchwey refused to print the letter. Her explanation: "It's absurd, defamatory and libelous...