Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baptist's head float on it. Even so, predicted Designer Dali when they were finished: "Those who protest will protest loudly, but those who like it will become delirious." Last week when Londoners finally got in on the act, some found what remained of Dali's nightmarish designs more distracting and boring than shocking. The frame of the harp that played for Salome's dance was a painted giraffe's neck. Herodias' tent was surmounted by umbrella skeletons which undulatingly opened and shut throughout the performance. John's severed head was a tame affair...
After that, for nightmarish minutes, he stalked the street like a murderous mechanical man. He shot at passing motorists, killed three people, wounded two more. He saw a two-year-old boy in a window, aimed, fired, killed...
...Nightmarish Question. From the north came word of new difficulties. In Tientsin, the Communists cooked up a retroactive "income tax" for the last half of 1948. The tax bore little relation to income, was based instead on a firm's "past reputation and business attitude." There was also the nightmarish question of exit visas. No one had been refused a visa to date, but as more & more businessmen gave up in disgust and prepared to go home, the Communists set up increasing complications. Samples: applicants for exit visas now had to advertise their intention of leaving China...
...nightmarish prospect bestrode the dreams of all grain men, of the harassed Commodity Credit Corp., and of Congressmen who were frightened of the political repercussions of a wheat glut. The CCC, which now owns most of the old crops still on hand, had been doing its best to move it out of storage and to the Gulf ports in the hope of increasing export. But there was a limit on how fast it could be moved. This week, the Association of American Railroads, unwilling to let its cars get tied up with orphan wheat, embargoed all shipments which...
What the free world knows of the nightmarish operation of the Russian police state has been mainly divulged by people who fled the regime because they hated it. U.S.-born Anna Louise Strong, 63, apparently still loves and admires the Soviet system, although she was roughly tossed out for "spying" (TIME, Feb. 28). The New York Herald Tribune (with 20 other U.S. newspapers) this week published Anna Louise's own story of her arrest...