Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme s unique that the move, almost by definition is highly incredible. This is to be expected, since heading for the moon at a clip of seven miles a second is a sensation no man has yet experienced. But the producers of the picture sometimes carry things to absurd extremes. For instance, when the rocket lights on the moon, the participants must first of all take part in a walky-talky interview via New York, for they are now celebrities...
...these critical times . . . isn't it absurd that our Senators have time to call each other "blind, stupid...
...skippers were generally like. Most of them hated the airplanes they were forced to carry, because 1) they splashed oil on the ship's clean decks; 2) it was a nuisance when pilots, dead or alive, had to be pulled out of the water; and 3) it seemed absurd to the admirals that aviators should get extra pay for doing what they liked...
Washington refused even to reply formally to the Soviet note, unofficially dismissed it as an absurd invention of Soviet propagandists* to explain away the failure of the 1950 potato crop in Eastern Germany. But in Prague last week, U.S. Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs decided to answer the Czech complaint in the same fine spirit with which it had been offered...
...which a direct attack by Moscow was to be directly answered by atom-bomb-packed B-36s. The effectiveness of that kind of force had not been disproved by first week setbacks in Korea. But already Louis Johnson's touted economy program was looking downright absurd. Last week, to meet the 1951 budget limitations dictated by Johnson, the Navy decommissioned the last of 14 large carrier air groups, reducing its total groups to nine...