Word: nightmarish
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...appearances of a very normal storm as it came across the Pacific," said National Weather Service Meteorologist Richard Wagoner. But the storm was far from normal, and so was its nightmarish impact. The extraordinarily heavy rains that poured down on Northern California last week-in some areas, more than a foot in 32 hours-followed weeks of rain that had saturated the porous clay earth. On Monday, mountainsides began turning to mud, flowing in thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed...
...these shortcomings combined to make the AWACS deal a nightmarish brush with disaster. The story began in a way, in 1978, when President Jimmy Carter pushed through a reluctant Congress the sale of the 60 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia. He did so. with arguments remarkably similar to those that Reagan was to use three years later, chiefly that the U.S. had to increase its influence in the Middle East by helping moderate Arab states to defend themselves. Harold Brown, then Secretary of Defense, had to pledge that Saudi Arabia's F-15s would not be equipped with such...
...film-makers' minds, shifted. The friendship is merely reduced to a series of bitchy figs. It's incomprehensible how or why these two women would remain friends. More importantly, Merry Noel Blake, written by Ayres and played by Bergen, could never be anyone's friend. She's a nightmarish ice princess turned monster: Godzilla released from the frozen island. Whereas Bisset inhabits Liz Hamilton, Bergen performs as Merry; she plays bubbly, then she looks sad, saddled all the while with a ludicrous attempt at a Southern accent. Her obvious Hollywood heritage actually starts to work in her favor, since Merry...
...most people, living close to an airport can be nightmarish, a constant affliction of screaming jet engines and shuddering vibration as huge airliners pass overhead. To a special few, a home beside an airport runway is the realization of a cherished dream. These people own their own planes and dwell in "air parks," residential communities organized around a private airstrip, accessible from nearly every home. Residents can park their planes in their front yards or in hangars-some of them two-plane models-adjacent to their houses. "When the kids ask for the keys to go out," says a resident...
...days, almost exactly, a nightmarish experience occurs. They have been thoroughly warned, and the prisoners await the moment with great alarm. They are struck by something called nystagmus, a loss of muscular control due to severe vitamin deficiency. If they look sideways, their eyes begin to gyrate wildly and uncontrollably, first horizontally and then vertically. The prisoners struggle to stare straight forward, even cupping their hands against the sides of their heads, but they cannot help themselves. Francis Hughes, 25, the second striker to die, even constructed cotton gauze blinders around his eyes...