Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur J. Amigo '71, in attacking the resolution, called such a policy on Vietnam "an absurd act of sentimental masochism...
During the attacks themselves the South Vietnamese government announced that An Quang pagoda where Thich Tri Quang had been living just on the outskirts of Cholon was being used as a command post by the V.C. Thich Tinh Minh said it's absolutely absurd...
Coming as it did from Jordan, the country that had been most weakened by the June war, the latest round of provocations proved difficult for the Israelis to understand. "There is something absurd in Jordan's approach," Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told the Knesset. "At times it behaves along the border as though we lost...
...faults except that it is neither tense nor in any way Middle Eastern. The wily Lebanese banker, the fanatic Syrian colonel, the Israeli undercover agent and his trusty Damascan mistress all speak as if their lines had been written for them by-to pick an absurd example-a plonking Australian novelist named Morris West, author of The Shoes of the Fisherman. This is Eric Ambler territory, and no Western writer less accustomed to its rigors should go out in the Mideast...
...other points: first, the implication that there could be a connection between the Watson incident and my resignation from Harvard is absurd, as I thought I had made clear to Mr. Joel Kramer. In the early fall of 1966, quite a bit before the President had heard from Crick or Wilkins, I told Mr. Pusey that I would have to leave before normal retirement in order to support my young children. My actual resignation came in February and I signed a contract with Atheneum at the same time; this was approximately four months before the Corporation vetoed the publication...