Word: absurdity
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...Done. Technologically, the proposal is not absurd. It consists of a hundred or more specific projects, from exploring New York and New Jersey iron-ore deposits to mining chromite and smelting manganese in Montana, all of which have been tested or recommended by engineers of the Bureau of Mines, Reclamation Bureau, Geological Survey or other agencies in recent years. The minerals to be dug or processed are either scarce, getting scarce or imported (and ships are scarce). Ickes outlined his scheme in terms of three bottlenecks it would break...
There was evidence last week that the Japs were working hard to overcome Filipino sales resistance. Some of the evidence was dropped by Japanese airmen over Douglas MacArthur's lines. Said the pamphlets, characteristically Japanese in their threatening but absurd lingo: "Newly issued war note is controlling more and more the financial activities of Manila day after day. For this reason the money you are receiving from the American forces as your salary is losing its value and will be waste paper in the near future...
...Axis technique he had interesting observations; how the innocent press of the world plays the Axis game by employing "terror symbols" systematically used by the Axis radio: words like "annihilated," "total," "paralyzing," etc. How "the use of absurd exaggerations and fantastic assertions is an essential part of the German strategy. It removes to a large extent the stigma attached to propaganda by giving to it an appearance of ballyhoo"-i.e., something which the U.S. radio audience has long been conditioned to accept good-humoredly...
...This harassing litigation and the unjustified demand for the absurd sum of $10,000,000 . . . are not in key with the American war effort...
Sirs: Your warning in TIME, Dec. 22, that the "few rules of thumb" listed for telling Chinese from Japanese are "not always reliable" is an unparalleled masterpiece of understatement. Such absurd generalities as "Japanese are nervous in conversation, laugh loudly at the wrong time," or "most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles" would have certainly made the eminent Dr. Samuel Johnson apoplectic. ... I feel the appropriateness of an admonishing Tsk ! Tsk ! MARTIN J. KATZ Philadelphia...