Word: absurdity
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...good sailors who could lay a hand on a new gear and feel its system right off, waited last week - as Winston Churchill explained later - by "the long arm of coincidence." Three days after the destroyer-base deal was announced, eight of the old U. S. destroyers, looking like absurd little floating factories with their flat decks and four tall funnels, steamed up the harbor. They dropped their anchors, but only long enough for British sailors to go aboard. Then they weighed again, and made out to sea. There, under the Stars & Stripes, gob showed...
...daylights out of contemporary conceptions of marriage, of happiness, of romantic love. In a last chapter whose eloquence becomes all but desperate, he expounds his personal solution : a marriage in which fidelity is observed neither for love, money nor hope of inner reward but "by virtue of the absurd," that is, by virtue alone of having taken oath to it. Right or raving, De Rougemont's reasoning is often ingenious, always arresting, fascinating in detail...
...other, America is simply not invadable by air or sea. That's particularly true if America's armaments and national defense are appropriate to or commensurate with the country's size, population, resources and industrial production, not to mention the spirit of the people. . . . Militarily it's absurd. We are not yet in an age of inter-hemisphere air wars...
...purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
...counting was peaceful-and absurd. "Unofficial official results": General Avila Camacho, 2,265,199 votes; General Almazán, 128,574 votes. Impartial observers were unanimous in denouncing this count as unashamedly rigged. Somewhat more modest, but no more dependable, was the opposition claim that General Almazán had carried 150 out of 172 electoral districts. The result as both sides stuck to their figures and fingered their triggers, was a deadlock. As tension mounted, Federal police raided General Almazán's Mexico City offices and seized his personal and business papers. The Attorney General...