Word: absurdity
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...substantial period of time outside the uterus,” Romney said in the Boston Globe. “To say that it is not life at one month or two months or four months or full term, just because it had never been in an uterus, would be absurd...
...amphibious creatures have acquired enough limbs to drag themselves from the ocean, they find one another on land and decide to mate--and a sexy, smooth jazz riff starts playing in the background. Millions of game years after that, you will find their descendants zipping across interstellar space in absurd 1950s-style UFOs...
...military recruiters on campus. This is, however, sheer coercion due to the dependence of private universities on federal funding. Some schools receive upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars from the government, and asking them to forego this money as a cost for implementing non-discriminatory codes is absurd. It is simply not logistically feasible for Harvard to turn down federal funding and continue its cutting-edge research and education...
Over Harvard’s past 10 games, Farkes is batting an absurd .541 with four home runs. His 20 hits in that span matched his output from the season’s first 29 games...
...Experimental travel" is the clever invention of Joel Henry, a French journalist who, in 1990, began devising amusing ways of liberating himself and his friends from the often unfulfilling experiences of conventional tourism. His methods involve the imposition of arbitrary?and often absurd?constraints that turn mundane travel into a fascinating series of games. In Fly by Night, readers are invited to arrive at a destination at dusk, explore through the night, and leave before dawn. Barman's Knock involves going to your favorite bar, downing your favorite drink, asking the bartender what his favorite bar and drink are, then...