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...felt like to be on-and later off-one of them, the Gregory, what it feels like to be sunk in any sea battle, was vividly described in the U.S. last week by Machinist's Mate George Thomas Rhodes of the U.S. Coast Guard, who had a nightmarish adventure on top of the sinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Jiu-jitsu in the Sea | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...pattern of veins up & down the stomach of a lady, whose only leg was a gigantic sausage that tapered off into a yawning volcano. Blood also oozed from the terrifying eye of an outsize male head. Blood was conspicuous in nearly all Painter Frederick Haucke's 20 nightmarish oils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blood and Valves | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Bambi grows up, and with horns he loses his cuteness. He also loses his baby voice, his spots, his mother. The hunters, who kill her, hunt Bambi and his bride, a doe named Faline. A pack of nightmarish hounds with luminous fangs (probably the most terrifying curs since Cerberus) attack them. Then a fire burns up the forest. It also burns up Disney's delicate fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

When the Argentine Finance Ministry last week announced the March export figures, they were jarring. Last year's 555,000 tons was bad enough; this year's 387,000 tons was nightmarish. For weeks no ship under Anglo-U.S. control has left New York for Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Price of Pride | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Breakfast, for those of the Bellboy population who took it, was a somewhat nightmarish meal yesterday morning, when the total outlay of 650 spoons was found missing from the tables. Some men stirred with knives, ("While there's knife, there's hope," said the Boston Traveler), some stirred with fountain pens, some didn't stir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Regain Silver Lost In Daring Spoonerman Raid | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

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