Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point the administration, sensing the immanence of an awkward and totally absurd feud, established the special committee to straighten out the situation and to set up a formal delineation of undefined matters concerning radiation. The necessity for clarification is especially pressing due to a report by AEC scientists that radiation in the atmosphere has doubled following the latest Russian atomic tests, and that radioactive material from the latest type of atomic weapons returns to the atmosphere much sooner than the material from previous bombs...
...March 16 article describing Pamela Mason and her unorthodox views, I must tell you that our senior class in sociology enjoyed it thoroughly. We wonder what she hopes to gain by expressing such laughably absurd ideas on the subject of sex. She approved everything from harems to homosexuality. We surmised, at length, that Mrs. Mason must be seeking attention...
...Moslem children ("There are a lot of them"); and, most important, the Constantine Plan, under which France will pour $420 million into industrial and agricultural development of Algeria in the next year. "By comparison," he said, "the desperate battles and outrages in Algeria appear each day more absurd...
Northern Rhodesia. In a more hopeful mood, Northern Rhodesians trooped to the polls last week to elect new members of the legislative council, under new provisions that increased the number of registered black voters from an absurd four in 1954 to 7,617 (out of a total black population of 2,500,000). Once again the basic issue was whether there should be a Federation at all. Burly Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, who in the face of increasingly insistent African demands has grown less and less keen about any actual partnership, plunged into the territorial campaign with...
...Since the debate was going to be humorous anyway, this disadvantage was actually a windfall," James D. Lorentz, Jr. '60, Chairman of the Debate Council, commented. "Now that we really have something to joke about, this should prove a truly absurd evening...