Word: nightmarish
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...Physics prizewinner for 1945 was Vienna-born Professor Wolfgang Pauli, 45, who had worked since 1940 in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. Professor Pauli is an authority on quantum mechanics, that nightmarish never-never branch of science where solid matter begins to dissolve into waves and energy...
...idea of putting Congress on the air might appeal to many a U.S. citizen, but to most Congressmen the idea is nightmarish. Last week the nightmare threatened them: Senator Claude Pepper of Florida had introduced a joint resolution calling for Congressional debate on the national networks...
...along the grey, rainswept Norman front it was bitter, close, bloody fighting for one small position after another; battle so like the grinding attrition of the troop-saturated positional fronts of World War I that it gave some veteran officers a nightmarish feeling of "this is where I came in." It took no topflight strategist to conclude that the invasion of Western Europe was falling farther & farther behind schedule...
There were nervous, nightmarish indications of coming events. British and Axis craft met and fought savagely in the Channel. In one night battle a German destroyer was sunk, in another the Canadians' famed destroyer Athabascan went down...
There is also a prolonged slapstick struggle with murderers aboard an old ship. And at one nightmarish juncture M.G.M.'s scripters manage to hang Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ann Rutherford and Jean Rogers, in a gently swinging human chain, from the top of an elevator shaft. High comic moment: Red Skelton, as anchor-man for this gibbering pendulum, decides to rest his hands by letting go and standing on the shoulders of Rags Ragland, who is desperately clinging to Skelton's ankles...