Word: hideous
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...grown-up wolf (he wrote) came out of one of the holes. This animal was followed by another of the same size and kind. The second was followed by a third, closely followed by two cubs, one after the other. Close after the cubs came . . . a hideous-looking creature-hand, foot and body like a human being. Close at its heels came another awful creature, exactly like the first, but smaller. Their eyes were bright and piercing, unlike human eyes. However, I at once came, to the conclusion that they were human beings...
...nights were unquiet. Up to this moment we had 160 aviation alarms here in Düsseldorf. Realize how that spoils your nerves. The two alarms at the beginning of this month were especially hideous. The industries situated on the right side of the railroad have suffered especially, likewise the Graf Adolf Strasse. Part of this street [one of the main streets in Düsseldorf] looks really devastated. In the Altstadt [old part of the city centre] too you find sad corners. A few thousand fire bombs have come down. The most terrible thing is the shooting. Often it lasts...
...last chance at love with a night-club saxophonist named Wally Collins, and in her fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...
...gypsy was quickly pardoned by George II. Reason: a swarm of witnesses were uncovered to swear they had seen that unforgettably hideous face far from London at the time of the crime. Soon it was Elizabeth Canning who was being tried, for perjury. Found guilty, she was exiled to Connecticut. In the two trials, involving 134 witnesses, the hag was clearly proved to have been in a London suburb in January 1753, and at the same time to have been several counties away. This forms "the strangest enigma that ever faced a court of law," says Lawyer Barrett R. Wellington...
Great is Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas the Met's official tongue is Anything-but-English. Next week the Metropolitan will open its season with some hurdy-Verdi in Italian (Un Ballo in Maschera), a new sponsor for its Saturday broadcasts (Texas Co.), its annual promise of more oomph. Meanwhile last week some other U. S. operas delivered the oomph...