Word: nightmarish
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What the free world knows of the nightmarish operation of the Russian police state has been mainly divulged by people who fled the regime because they hated it. U.S.-born Anna Louise Strong, 63, apparently still loves and admires the Soviet system, although she was roughly tossed out for "spying" (TIME, Feb. 28). The New York Herald Tribune (with 20 other U.S. newspapers) this week published Anna Louise's own story of her arrest...
...Champs Elysées it was very cold. The fog was thick and dirty and it added to the nightmarish quality of the scene. It choked men, so they stopped fighting to cough, and then were knocked down while they coughed, and fell to the ground, still coughing...
...Crimson and Art Valpey today's game poses a dual mission. First, and most important, the mission of snapping back from the nightmarish disaster of Palmer Stadium; and secondly, the mission of continuing to brew the hocus-pocus that has befuddled Brown for so long a time...
Adrian's music was modern and daring, brought him the fame the Devil promised. But as the 24 years come to an end, Adrian's sanity does too. In a terrible nightmarish scene, Mann describes the gathering where Adrian crazily tries to explain his last and greatest composition to his friends. By that time, the Devil had already claimed...
...rest of Young Washington is chiefly the story of George's effort to fight a nightmarish war against able enemies, with insufficient men and supplies. Freeman's accounts of Washington's volunteer trip to warn the French away from the Ohio, the disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity and the slaughter of Braddock's army are easily the soundest and most complete in print...