Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These accusations, foreign observers thought, were absurd. For the Chinese to check the Japanese advance at possible sacrifice of half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...
...point to Article II of the Bill of Rights forbidding infringement of the right... to bear arms. May we remind such objectors that this constitutional provision was adopted ... When pioneer conditions required that the householder become his own policeman? An insistence on its literal interpretation is shown to be absurd when we reflect...
...forget their keys, lock themselves out of rooms which-unconsciously -they do not want to enter, forget the names of people they pretend to like, and forget engagements they do not want to keep. In this universal comedy of psychological errors, typesetters drop words from headlines, proofreaders overlook absurd mistakes, genteel ladies make slips of the tongue which transform innocent sentences into obscenities. But all these accidents, says Freud, are meaningful. People forget-which means that they drive from their conscious minds-incidents that have unpleasant associations for them, such as feelings of guilt. Chance or faulty actions bring them...
...course the fifteen minutes extra is not needed in certain subjects. In mathematics it would be absurd to hand out a paper without a blue book on which to start figuring; likewise in the scientific courses, in which calculations are made, is there little need for lengthening the hours of torture. But where essays, identification of passages, or discussions demanding the operation of the critical and artistic faculty are the order of the day, time for orderly planning is vitally needed...
Confederate blood boils at TIME'S comparison of Fascist Franco with Confederate Robert E. Lee. This is the absurd apogee of its consistently biased, frequently inaccurate, reports of the Spanish war. TIME'S glib essay at historical analogy, is shallow, unsupported by historical fact...