21.   Yamaguchi acknowledged that the Nagano Olympic Organizing Committee had worked out its contingency plans just in case the nightmare came to pass.

22.   But then came the nightmares.

23.   But their worst nightmare came when the top court ruled in July that mainlanders adopted by Hong Kong parents should not be granted the right of abode.

24.   For Jewish settlers in this remote outpost, the presence of armed Palestinians in the newly-autonomous neighboring town of Ramallah is their worst nightmare come true.

25.   For those the flames threaten, it is simply their worst nightmare come true.

26.   It was a nightmare come true.

27.   It was his worst nightmare come true, Andre Agassi said.

28.   Next came nightmares of sexual assault, of her father naked.

29.   Sometimes the nightmares come back.

30.   The worst nightmare came Saturday morning for Madrid residents fleeing southeast to beaches in the Valencia region at the start of their August vacation.