Word: murk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eyck was worth an exhibition all by itself. This tiny (8¾ inches by 6 inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near Liverpool. When the Australian gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems...
...Holiday (see cut); Joe Hirsch's Two Men (see cut) which, using a very broad, low canvas, catches breadthwise the gaunt intensity of two workers; Jack Levine's Rouault-like Night Scene, where the ruddy heads and hands of the two figures emerge from a blue-black murk like blazing coals...
...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
...blood-smeared ghosts struggling hand-to-hand in a dripping fog. Legionnaires crouched and climbed from rock to rock. One straightened up and plunged face down, with a bullet through his throat. Another with a broken leg tried to hop to safety, but slid off into the murk down the hillside. There were many casualties, but the Rightists pressed forward, groping almost to the muzzles of the Asturians' rifles and machine guns. Hand grenades started bursting. Men were screaming. Bayonets were used as daggers. The struggle lasted for an hour. Then the Asturians fell back into...
...cloud and heavy rain, passed over the zone of silence extending straight up from the field's radio beacon, radioed that he was backtracking to make a landing. It seemed most likely that while he was spiraling down, the sea loomed up at him too suddenly through the murk to escape a crash...