Word: nightmarish
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...batting .310before he cut a finger on a foul tip. But still the Dodgers lose: twostraight to the sixth-place Chicago Cubs last week, two out of four tothe ninth-place Houston Colts. Then those hated San Francisco Giants inflicted an 11-3 thrashing, scoring nine runs in one nightmarish inning...
...Nightmarish though it was, the experience of Nick Philippides and How ard Weiner took on its real significance as part of a bigger pattern-a wave of terrorism on the trains. Within 96 hours of the Kings Highway station outbreak, these incidents also took place...
...first, the Brooklyn group's effort seemed about to live up to its nightmarish prospects. Early in the morning, some demonstrators tried to keep a subway train from moving by holding the doors open. A cop batted their hands with his night stick, the doors closed, and the train moved...
Checkpoint reeks of authenticity. Some of it is just that of a competent journalist rendering the sights and sounds of Berlin today-the nightmarish rumble of U.S. tanks massing at dawn along the border, the frustrated rage of West Berlin student rioters, the strange claustrophobia of the beleaguered city, which extends even to the press of boats cluttering the Wannsee of a Sunday afternoon. More rare is Diplomatic Insider Thayer's ability to convey with tape-recorder fidelity imaginary encounters between U.S. diplomats and the Russians in the kind of baleful restricted bargaining that still sometimes takes place...
...whole basketful of economic problems that plague the Communist bloc. COMECON, the eight-nation group created by the Communists in frank imitation of the Common Market, not only has failed to relieve the economic chaos in Eastern Europe, but in many ways has actually worsened it. So nightmarish is their job that the satellite economists have begun to grumble openly...