Word: nightmarish
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...Nightmarish Scenario. There were thin patches of silver, lining: i) Malan is fiercely antiCommunist, hates Soviet Russia even more than he hates Britain; 2) with a slim working majority in a time of world crisis, he may feel impelled, for a while at least, to go slow. But literate Britons in South Africa queasily remembered a book called When Smuts Goes-a lurid, Wellsian prophecy of South Africa's future-published last winter by Dr. Arthur M. Keppel-Jones, a wispy historian at the University of Witwatersrand. When Smuts Goes predicted a Nationalist accession to power, an oppressive rule...
...nightmarish scenario, but there was no escaping the fact that the first installment of Dr. Keppel-Jones's prophecy had come true...
...Cross nurse in World War I, Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her career until 1925, when she married Homer Wickenden, a social-welfare official...
Diamond disaster, in the form of a nightmarish ninth inning that produced four runs for Holy Cross, spoiled the Varsity baseball team's bid for a perfect weekend Saturday afternoon at Worcester, when the Crusaders squeaked out and 8 to 7 victory...
...officials had calculated the risk and were ready to take it. The alternative was former U.S. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's nightmarish goat-pasture plan to deindustrialize Germany. It was better to give Russia an advantage in reparations than to leave Europe divided and prostrate because Germany was divided and prostrate...