Word: absurdity
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...Anzac Corps of Australians and New Zealanders carried out a night landing just about six miles across thexinountains from the big Narrows forts. In the darkness tidal currents swept their boats a mile beyond their target beaches. But the Anzacs indomitably clawed up the cliffs, and "raising their absurd cry of 'Imshi yallah' [a phrase picked up in Cairo meaning 'Go away'], the Dominion soldiers fixed their bayonets and charged. Within a few minutes the enemy before them had dropped their rifles and fled...
...comedy does not reach its funniest part until the second scene, a rehearsal of Puff's masterpiece. That play, a wonderful and absurd specimen of eighteenth century tragedy at its tearful best, gives a seemingly endless series of players a chance to rant and spout amusingly grand poetry. All the cast of the play within a play cannot be mentioned, though most of them deserve to be. Particularly outstanding are Nancy Curtis, who shines as the heroine, Eric Martin, as her father, Thomas Eldridge, in the part of Lord Hatton, and John Hallowell, as Leicester...
Running David Lawrence's item immediately following Murray Kempton's was extremely efficacious. Kempton's article, which is typical of the absurd and insubstantial material utilized as verbal bombast against Nixon, adequately proves Lawrence's contention [that the renomination of Nixon was a vindication of the Vice President over the long "whispering campaign about his lack of integrity"]. The Democrats, not unlike the Communist propagandists in their techniques of unfactual and slanderous invective against Nixon, have yet to provide evidence from which they can justify the vilification of the Vice President...
...meeting, his pitch was low-keyed, without personal resentment against Harry Truman. "My fight," he said, "is against the Republicans, not against any Democrat." Old friends rallied around him. Plowing through the crushing crowds with Stevenson was an especially devoted and notedly effective helper: Eleanor Roosevelt, 71, wearing an absurd little hat and carrying herself with gentle dignity. She spoke repeatedly of her concern for a better world, a better America, and a Democratic Party in which the old, e.g., herself and Harry Truman, must make way for the young, i.e., Adlai Stevenson. "My husband," said she meaningfully...
...Because of his extreme suspicion, Stalin toyed also with the absurd and ridiculous suspicion that Voroshilov was an English agent [Laughter"). A special tapping device was installed in his home to listen to what was said there...