Word: absurdities
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...Teck in 1867, she was called "May" by her family, and she is known to recent memory as Queen Mary, wife of George V, her second cousin once removed. With her pastel parasols, tailored suits and hats designed by some puckish confectioner, she was an anachronistic though never absurd figure...
...Last Valley, by J. B. Pick. An existential parable of men, caught in the senseless violence of the waning Thirty Years' War, who search for clues to the meaning of a gorily absurd world...
...Ronald Knox. d) Nevil Shute. 89. Died. A 46-year-old author (The Myth of Sisyphus) who would have considered the way he died, in a speeding sports car, absurd. His name: a) Nevil Shute. c) Ronald Knox...
...many a practiced politician, Jack Kennedy's punishing grind seemed absurd : running virtually unopposed, he could, if he wanted to, claim New Hampshire's eleven delegate votes with the merest amenities - a speech or two, a TV appearance, and many thanks. But Kennedy was doing it the hard, handshaking way for two reasons: 1) he hopes to get a bigger primary vote than Estes Kefauver got in 1956 (when 30% of the state's Democrats turned out) and thus convince his party's skeptics of his popular support; 2) his own example was an opportunity...
...wrote to Galinsoga, tactfully suggested that the culprit must have been an impostor using Galinsoga's card. Replied Galinsoga: "The card is mine. To go to church in a Spanish city where one hears, apart from Latin, a language that a Spaniard has no obligation to understand appears absurd...