Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other, America is simply not invadable by air or sea. That's particularly true if America's armaments and national defense are appropriate to or commensurate with the country's size, population, resources and industrial production, not to mention the spirit of the people. . . . Militarily it's absurd. We are not yet in an age of inter-hemisphere air wars...
...purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
...counting was peaceful-and absurd. "Unofficial official results": General Avila Camacho, 2,265,199 votes; General Almazán, 128,574 votes. Impartial observers were unanimous in denouncing this count as unashamedly rigged. Somewhat more modest, but no more dependable, was the opposition claim that General Almazán had carried 150 out of 172 electoral districts. The result as both sides stuck to their figures and fingered their triggers, was a deadlock. As tension mounted, Federal police raided General Almazán's Mexico City offices and seized his personal and business papers. The Attorney General...
...people were the words that came out of Italy. Darkling Fascist Grand Councilman Roberto Farinacci, a onetime Socialist often used effectively by Benito Mussolini to sound off to the Italian masses, wrote in his Cremona paper Regime Fascista: "Now we can speak high and loud. . . . It is absurd to think that our country . . . shall not participate in the transformation of the map of Europe and perhaps of the world." In a broadcast to Italian troops at week's end, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, said: "No people in Europe can isolate itself from conflict...
...other side of Europe Danzig fills with truckloads of Hitler's jaunty armed "tourists." German ships bring in harmless-looking cargoes-arms. Across the main square of the old Baltic port Propaganda Minister Goebbels trips like an absurd gnome in a great coat that reaches his heels...