Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even stand-up comic Yakov Smirnoff could exaggerate the absurd reality of flying Aeroflot, the Soviet airline. Passengers must endure dismissive ticket agents, brusque cabin crews, delays as long as three days and white-knuckle flights on ancient jets. As a monopoly, Aeroflot nonetheless carried 120 million travelers last year, making it the world's largest carrier...
...very important to have family time together, and we've always though it absurd to try to eat in the dining hall as a family," says Judith F. Dowling, co-master of Leverett House. She says that although she loves being part of the students' lives, she has left it up to her kids to decide whether to be part of house life...
...certainly not absurd--although it may be unusual--to suggest that the city of Cambridge is actually more important than Harvard University. The number of Cambridge residents, for instance, is more than five times as great as the number of Harvard students. And while Harvard undergraduates are usually assured of housing for four year, most Cambridge residents possess no such guarantee...
...Requiring a document to get an apartment is absurd--especially if you can't get the document," Woods said. Massachusetts law makes no provision for marriage between two members of the same...
...Brits' blase attitude was perhaps understandable. The revelation came after the screening of a KGB film that went to absurd lengths to present its intelligence agents as humane, sensitive blokes with a fondness for cooking and poetry...