Word: murk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the murk of biased reporting on both sides, just one fact shone bright as an ancient Greek fire beacon. Adolf Hitler has an unearthly way, not only of beating his enemies, but of getting his allies into embarrassing wars which make his own successes seem greater. Winter in Finland and the rainy season in Greece were two good examples...
Pounding forward in chase of a third, the Ajax began to ship water through her forward plates, was forced to reduce speed. In the murk before dawn she suddenly came on an Italian squadron of one heavy cruiser and four destroyers. Opening up again at long range, she staggered one destroyer with a shot through the hull. As the crippled destroyer lost way, another slipped her a towline, started spewing out a smoke screen. By now the Ajax (which the Italians claimed to have sunk) had begun calling up support. But before the heavy cruiser York could arrive, the faster...
...later, was a snatch of a CBS broadcast that night by Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, a lurid, present-tense yarn of the long-past sinking of the Republic in 1909 - first major sea disaster in which radio was used as a distress signal: "Fog is all about . . . impenetrable murk . . . hysterical shriek . . . crash and grinding . . . frightening darkness . . . shouts and screams . . . women and children aboard ... C Q D ... C Q D*. ..." As Captain Brown recalled whatever he did hear, "they seemed terribly excited. . . . It made me sick to my stomach...