Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis time in Washington. The issue was the most baffling, potentially the most explosive and in its way one of the most absurd that Jimmy Carter had faced. Despite almost four weeks of diplomatic efforts, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were stalemated over a smoldering dispute that threatened to flare out of control. The confrontation had even reached the point last week that TASS, the official Soviet news agency, took the unusual step of denouncing Carter personally for "absolutely unfounded and crude attacks" on the U.S.S.R...
...resist a sly dig at America's unchecked oil consumption, chiding "people who often ask for absurd solutions that require no discipline...
...PROPOSALS MADE almost nobody happy. MATEP is unhappy because it thinks the 200 limit is absurd. While Lashman says the plant can meet the "stringent conditions," as he labels them, it can only do so by sacrificing cost and energy efficiency. Harvard has already invested almost $175 million in what is beginning to look like a white elephant...
...statement is about as absurd as any forecast, because in Ivy League football the oddsmaker is more our common enemy than our mutual friend
...inert" chemicals, which may be mixed with pesticides to increase their effectiveness, even though many inert chemicals are poisonous. The EPA also uses a data base collected 15 years ago to estimate how much of what foods the average individual consumes today--data which Congress says "borders on the absurd." Since the EPA study was made in 1965, Congress reports, "We have seen some major shifts in food consumption in the U.S.... Consumption of poultry, chicken, cheese, margarine, shortening and oils, fresh and frozen vegetables and corn syrup and sweeteners has increased." Finally, the EPA supports many of its decisions...