Word: nightmarish
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...Nazis had taken this island rampart of the Balkans in twelve nightmarish days of 1941. Now the Greeks and British pounded the power station at Malemi, where the Nazi padded paratroopers had dropped two years ago. They ripped the radio post at Selino Kastelli, not far from the beach where a German seaborne remnant came through British naval guns. They strafed the roads behind Candia, where exhausted Allied foot soldiers had retreated...
...After 24 nightmarish hours, Detroit was quieted down, counted the toll of one of the worst riots in modern U.S. history: at least 23 dead, over 700 injured, over 600 jailed. Of the dead Negroes, police had shot at least eight...
...result, says McWilliams, was tragic. The Indians were used to tribal ownership; once their holdings became individual they fell prey to swindlers and land-grabbers; their cultural and social solidarity fell apart. (This, McWilliams believes, was the intention of the Dawes Act.) Their language was suppressed in schools ("truly nightmarish institutions"), their religious ceremonies discouraged, their arts and crafts allowed to fade away. By 1923 they had declined in numbers "from the pre-Columbian estimate of 850,000 to around...
...deaths because proper public warning was not given. I suppose anything which causes infants to vomit is dangerous but so far we've had no reports of serious results." The consensus of the publicity-wise was in agreement with Dr. Dunbar - Centaur's costly action in its nightmarish plight may turn out to be excellent advertising in the long...
...Franklin Roosevelt the hulking form of John L. Lewis is like an ominous figure in a recurrent bad dream. This week the dream and the figure were back again in their most nightmarish aspect. With a coal strike threatened next weekend, John Lewis had once again maneuvered the President of the U.S. into a head-to-head personal fight...