Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain received the news grimly. Washington saw the "absurd" pretext of a German threat as the opening bid for stationing Soviet troops on Finnish soil while diverting attention from Soviet pressure on Berlin. Ultimately, Moscow might intend to whisk neutral Finland behind the Iron Curtain, lock the Baltic door behind her. The Swedes felt the same fears, and there was growing talk about reconsidering Sweden's historic neutrality. NATO member Norway, which shares a 390-mile frontier with Finland in the north, prepared to draw up new defense plans...
With classroom integration tenuously established (there are about 200 Negroes among the 20,396 students), an absurd glossary of race-based regulations still rules in Austin. Negroes may not spend free hours in the sitting rooms of white dormitories, may take only minor roles in drama-department productions, may not play varsity sports. Paradoxically, they may visit white students in dormitory bedrooms if the door is kept closed, but may not visit in the dining rooms or social areas. Said a dormitory housekeeper to a Negro girl visiting the television room of a white dorm: "This is a public area...
After all, the very ideas of life boats was absurd. The Titanic was unsinkable. I am sure the few lucky survivors of that disaster would be most impressed with the Committee's views. William Holden Clafin '65. David Griffiths '64 Tod Gitlin...
Social workers carry imperfect science to absurd heights. Says A. J. Montanari, who runs a private home for rejected children in Hialeah, Fla.: "To avoid the risk of failure, social workers set up so many standards that most people can't qualify, and we have thousands of children who stay in institutions because no one is allowed to take them." In a famed case last year, New Jersey state welfare workers tried unsuccessfully to take a four-year-old girl from her foster parents so that another couple could adopt her. The official reason: the foster parents were...
...attitude of Sens. Magnuson and Pastore and the NAB is absurd. Their arguments are based on the premise that "it is not in the public interest" to broadcast liquor advertising into the American home. But newspapers and magazines carry advertisements for hard liquor, and as one broadcasting executive has observed, Congress and the NAB are trying "to make the existence of hard liquor go away by pretending they don't recognize...