Word: absurdity
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...Washington official who thought OFF almost as absurd as the Herald Tribune made it sound was Wild Bill Donovan, who, according to New York Times's Arthur Krock, had dreamed up an ingenious idea: an immense glass globe, lighted from within, to show President Roosevelt the disposition of all the world's armies, navies and air forces, and their positions from day to day, the economic resources of every theater of war, changes of population and their racial origins, war production in industrial areas-all projected on the surface of the globe in shining Technicolor from films inside...
...could say; no more. It takes one to start a fight, but it takes two to make an end of fighting. There was no apparent disposition in Moscow last week to call a halt. Said Soviet Spokesman Solomon ' A. Lozovsky: "The possibility of destroying the Soviet Union is absurd. We are confident of success because it is impossible to destroy the U.S.S.R., Britain and the United States. The Germans are dizzy with temporary successes. No single battle can finish this war. We . . . have no doubt as to the ultimate outcome...
...nominees for the office, they triumphantly declared, and no legal way to name any. That a city of 1,014,128 registered voters could hold a write-in election and "select a Mayor by such a plurality or majority as will fairly express the public will is a manifest absurdity." When the application of a law is manifestly absurd, the law should be invalidated. The Court cited many a legal authority, for that principle. Among them: Samuel von Pufendorf...
...store clerk who was only 70% accurate in making change would soon be fired. Concluding that a 70% passing mark is equally absurd in school arithmetic, "cooperative" classes in New York City high schools-whose students attend classes and work at outside jobs in alternate weeks-have made 100% the passing mark in arithmetic tests. Last week the assistant director of these classes reported that 79% of her pupils flunked...
...wearing short pants look absurd in these serious, austere surroundings. Grown men with hairy legs barely covered and short panties resemble ridiculous absent-minded professors. To be sure there was a short-pants campaign last year . . . but this mediocre idea proved a failure...