Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats will think twice about calling witnesses that they at first might want to call." But while Hyde and his colleagues have the power to prevent Democrats from calling any particular witness, they will be hard pressed to exercise it without adding to their image of partisanship. "It's absurd on its face that you wouldn't call the major witnesses," barked Marty Meehan, a Democratic committee member. "There has to be a fair opportunity to cross-examine these people...
...movie has to use its weak storyline to justify gorgeous panoramas of the icy Andes, Amazonian waterfalls and a view of South America from space that can only be called awesome. Other exotic images include pink dolphins, bigger-than-life insects and creatures that look so absurd they're almost cute. Naturally, the famous Amazonian piranhas and other such dangerous beasts show up and startle the audience, if not with their teeth then with their alien appearances. The mountains tower so high they threaten to break the sky-dome of the screen, the forest envelopes the viewer on all sides...
...cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence. "It isn't a completely absurd idea... A politician of her caliber, as well as her energy and political experience, would take her former countrymen by storm," the article argued. "I'm honored, but it is not my life," she told TIME last week. "I love being an American, and representing the U.S. is the greatest...
Ultimately, the only charge that really sticks when it comes to final clubs is that many members are offensively arrogant. But so are lots of the politicos and budding journalists among us. We don't need another absurd community debate about the nefarious influence of often-intoxicated guys who own their own buildings. What we need is another month as sublime as September...
...cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence. "It isn't a completely absurd idea... A politician of her caliber, as well as her energy and political experience, would take her former countrymen by storm," the article argued...