Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imperfect Echo. To most citizens (and to many of the electors themselves) the whole archaic process seemed as absurd and awkward as starting a jet engine with an 18th Century flint and steel...
...teacher. "Exactly right. Be sure you do as well next week when the government supervisors come." The following week she asked the prize student the same question. "Our cat," said Istvan, "had ten kittens, of which all were Social Democrats." "Why, Istvan," cried the teacher, "that's absurd. That's not what you said last week. Last week your kittens were all Communist." "I know," said Istvan, "but since then their eyes have opened...
...findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that a lot is wrong with Europe's vision. He writes: "Europe looks toward America with such great hopes! But at the same time she harbors such great and .. . absurd suspicions...
...steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told by one of the monitors that the deck he was standing on was hotter than hell, the Navyman whistled up his scrubmen. They scrubbed and scrubbed, Navy-way -but still the Geiger counters sang...
...overqualifying domestic stories, and for its practice of sending out confidential notes on off-the-record subjects. Tall Edward Kennedy, who got into A.P.'s doghouse for breaking the German surrender story, and is now managing editor of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press, said: "It's absurd for the A.P. to send 'confidential' news notes to 1,200 papers. It won't add to the confidence readers have in newspapers...