Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a military juggernaut might be a fine instrument for Realpolitik, but was it American-was it politically feasible? One of the country's greatest military men had privately said, while the plans were adrawing, that they were ridiculous-Congress would never agree to drain off so huge a...
Some civilian scientists were flatly calling the project a put-up job. (Said one: "It's a ridiculous test. The Navy men will prove either that our Navy is safe from attack or that we need a new Navy.") Others asked suspiciously: why was the Navy planning to use...
The Democratic explosion was awesome. Up jumped Pennsylvania's Congressman John W. Murphy, shouting: "It would ill behoove this committee. ... It would not be showing much courtesy." Illinois' Senator Scott W. Lucas cried: "Fishing expedition . . . ridiculous!"
"The spirit of the workshop . . . should inform every part of school. There should be a workshop for letters where poems and stories are made; workshops for dancing and for music; workshops for the art of living together in houses, that ridiculous name domestic science being forever anathema. . . . Not science but...
When an important man slips on a banana peel, he looks more ridiculous than a little fellow. That's what happened to Sammy Baugh this week. Pro football's greatest passer faded behind his goal line, cocked his arm for a risky pass. The ball hit a goal...