Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comm. Howland defended the controversial "abroad in the night-time" law as necessary for crime prevention. "It is absurd for policemen to have to wait for an actual violation of the law before apprehending a suspicious person," he said, and reported suggestions that the law be extended to cover the daytime...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching...
...absurd and senseless to use the games as cold war battle fronts. Hitler tried to use the 1936 Olympics to prove the supremecy of his Nazi state and earned the laughter of the world when German athletes produced only average performances. Now the U.S., which invented the insidious, meaningless, and unofficial team point system, is following in Hitler's path. Our embarrassment may be as painful as Hitler's, as there is little chance of a U.S. "team" victory...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
Being one of the many Mormon missionaries, I am somewhat acquainted with the doctrine of our church. I would like to know where you got the statement "new converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking." This is absurd. The Word of Wisdom, as the Mormons understand it, prohibits any use of tobacco, and is a commandment from God given through Joseph Smith at Kirtland, Ohio...