Word: nightmarish
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...Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. For years the American left had drawn a picture of the U.S. spied on by a sort of combined super CIA-FBI dominated by lawless and hidden money. Once dismissed as paranoid fantasies, such visions now acquired a touch of nightmarish truth...
...static harmony prevails over the earth. So it happens that who ever plays Hitler in a movie, or how well, is not of much more than aesthetic consequence - no more, say, than the comparisons between one Siegfried and another. The role is always greater than its actors, and its nightmarish content has become somewhat abstract. Nor will the rise of some future Hitler be discouraged by the belief that the Führer was a demon. The demonic, in human affairs, is generally an oversimplification. With Hitler, it is also a refuge. We do not like to diminish ourselves...
...such action would, as one Congressman describes it, "rock the world." Practically no one expects it to happen. There is in fact a nightmarish quality to all such speculation. How could a "third-rate burglary" grow to these monstrous proportions...
PRINCETON, N.J.--On Princeton's Finney Field Saturday, the Crimson lacrosse team played its best game of the season in springing to a 3-0 lead, never trailing despite a nightmarish fourth quarter, and ultimately secured a 10-8 upset triumph over the Bengals...
...rising tide of prosperity, consumers have gone on a damn-the-expense, damn-the-high-cost-of-living buying spree. The sustained burst of personal spending, especially in the first three months of 1973, is propelling retail sales and corporate profits to new peaks. It is also raising nightmarish prospects for Administration policymakers charged with the tricky task of keeping the economy moving briskly while avoiding a destructive price spiral. Their efforts to check inflation could well prove futile unless the blistering pace of consumer buying is somehow slowed in the months ahead...