Word: nightmarish
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...Will the conviction bring an end to the nightmarish memory that has haunted Birmingham all these years? Willoughby Anderson, 22, a Harvard graduate from Birmingham who wrote a thesis on the church bombing, isn't sure. "I don't think justice is possible after 38 years," she says. "But I think this is important for Birmingham just to be talking about this painful and embarrassing moment of our history...
...journey up the Mekong into the jungled heart of Southeast Asia has had a hold on popular imagination since Martin Sheen's nightmarish voyage in Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola's film, shot in the Philippines, probably did as much to inform armchair experience of the Vietnam War and its virgin forest battlegrounds as any travel brochure. But recreating Captain Willard's mythical journey has been impossible for decades due to civil war in Mekong and tourist restrictions in communist Laos. Until now. Although not yet officially announced, the Mekong border crossing has been reopened to foreigners, allowing river travel...
When Fannie Smith, 82, was found to have lung cancer two years ago, her son Ray had nightmarish visions of commuting weekly between his home in Denver and his mother's place in Linden, N.J. "Mom wasn't going to move, and she didn't want to go to a nursing home," the 59-year-old financial adviser recalls. But all kinds of problems, from fixing the hot-water heater to lining up 24-hour health care for her, suddenly became his responsibility. "How do you handle all that from 1,800 miles away?" he wondered. "You just...
...that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims of Foca to leave after Serbs overran the town. Presiding judge Florence Mumba called the defendants "lawless opportunists [who] should expect no mercy" for their roles in a "nightmarish scheme of sexual exploitation." The judge noted that women and girls, one as young as 12 years old, were detained in various locations in Foca, taken out nightly to be gang-raped and tortured, "robbed of the last vestiges of human dignity," and treated like "pieces of property...
...ashamed to say that last year's draft was a nightmarish experience for me. Three times, the player I wanted was selected one pick ahead of me. Sometimes I admit it on the spot. Other times, my pride gets in the way of my drafting error. "I should have traded up. I should have picked him last round." The questions fly through my head, and I begin to feel dizzy. Time is running out on my selection. I have to regroup and make a pick before the allotted three minutes is over...