Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter how it's packaged, the NRA bill does absolutely nothing to make federal gun law more enforceable. In fact, it will make nightmarish any attempts by government--federal, state, or local--to prevent easily concealable handguns from getting into the hands of Hinckleys, lunatics, and criminals...
...parttime go-go dancer, the work can become draining. "It gets kind of nightmarish when I realize that I'm in a cage and I have to dance to the next song when all I want to do is sit down," says Kelly...
...space shuttle Challenger, the trusted $1.2 billion workhorse on which they had been riding. Transfixed by the terrible sight of the explosion, Americans watched as it was replayed again and again. And yet again. Communal witnesses to tragedy, they were bound, mostly in silence, by a nightmarish image destined to linger in the nation's shared consciousness...
...suddenly the set explodes--it actually goes "boom"--giving way to a series of increasingly nightmarish scenarios that spill across the stage as they expand into the far reaches of Prum's unconscious mind. And to be sure, the inventive psychological meanderings are a Freudian's picnic...
Generations of doctors have experienced the nightmarish rites of passage through medical school--eight-hour lecture days, and an insurmountable barricade of raw knowledge...