Word: absurdities
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...Garwood "trial" is an absurd ending to an absurd war. I find no mercy, no justice and finally no sense whatever in even holding a trial, let alone the guilty verdict. I say, let the man go. He has paid enough...
...spot market's softness probably does not foreshadow lower fuel costs for consumers. The mini-glut is nearly microscopic: there is an estimated surplus of no more than 800,000 bbl., out of a total non-Communist worldwide production of about 53 million bbl. per day. "It is absurd to talk of a glut," says one West German oilman. "So long as any one of a number of oil-producing nations can create shortages, the world's energy supply hangs by an exceedingly thin thread...
Bunker asked last week. "Absurd," replied Sinatra...
...majority of white members of the vaunted Harvard community, these troubles seem far from affecting their everyday lives. Rather than rally around the cause of minority students, white students clamor for longer library hours. The present situation and the insensitivity of white students would be absurd if it weren't so sad and insidious: the signs of the times indicate that avowed liberals are more interested in their private good than in the good of the community. The prevalent attitude constitutes not so much racism as a disregard for minority issues. As long as the majority of students and faculty...
...Salvador Dissent Paper." In reality, it started off as a low-key affair. State officials told their media contacts (who, not surprisingly, had received the report as well) that the document was undoubtably a fake. After all, it said it was an official dissent paper. Patently absurd, they argued. Dissent papers--usually used by government officers in the field to critique U.S. policy or the work of the ambassador--reach solely the desk of the Secretary of State...