Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush of events in the West, the world has all but forgotten the continuing torment of Tibet, which was first invaded in 1950 by the Communist Chinese army and again two years ago by screaming Red Guards. Those successive onslaughts have transformed the land of Shangri-la into a nightmarish Himalayan hell...
...General Omar Bradley accused him of being too cautious, nobody can question that he won an overwhelming victory at El Alamein. And while the British had numerical superiority in men and tanks, it was no staged battle that was fought on the hot desert sands. It was a nightmarish engagement that was won eventually with British guts and skill. Even Rommel himself was appalled by the fierceness of the fighting. He wrote: "Rivers of blood were poured out over miserable strips of land which, in normal times, not even the poorest Arab would have bothered his head about...
Crowded Streets. Continuing skirmishes in the capital failed to root out stubborn-and embarrassing-pockets of Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the honeycomb hovels and alleys of the Chinese quarter of Cholon. But Communist resistance had slackened to the point where Saigon resumed relatively routine patterns. Nightmarish traffic again snarled streets nearly empty for two weeks, and patrolling soldiers no longer had the wary, Gary Cooper glint in their eyes...
...funny moments are provided in Lynn's nightmarish seduction by Ian Carmichael playing a guards officer type as impeccably drunk as he is dressed. But Smashing Time has too much bashing to be smashing-and is added evidence that slapstick has replaced satire in the once fine and delicate art of British comedy...
...spacecraft's motion. Thus, the computer showed, as the craft approached 45 Eridani at ever increasing velocities, other stars in the sky began to converge toward the target star. At 90% of the speed of light, only a few stars remained visible through the rear window. In a nightmarish finale to Moskowitz's flight, the remainder of the visible universe-stars, galaxies, nebulas-seemed to collapse into a single point and simultaneously disappear...