Word: murk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's big Idlewild International Airport. The plane, a cargo transport, had left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. seven hours before with 13,700 Ibs. of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and lingerie. It had made a routine flight, with fuel stops at Charleston, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C., and despite the murk it seemed about to make an equally routine landing-the ceiling hung at 500 feet and visibility was a mile and a half...
...blinding eddies of thick coal dust were 'blowing out of two long tunnels named Old Main North and New Main North. The walls and ceilings seemed to press in, and the miners clung to each other as they fumbled desperately along. They retched and gasped. In the murk, some met a pitiful few who had lived to walk, bruised and dazed, out of the areas near the blast...
Next day, Harry Truman sought to calm them as he boarded the Independence. "I don't want any great fuss made about this situation," he said. "There is nothing wrong." But something was wrong. Harry Truman came away from the Florida sunshine into the blackest cloud of murk that has risen over Washington in many a year. Day after day, revelations of corruption in his Administration are piling up, amid indications that the scandals may grow to outstrip Teapot Dome. In political urgency, the graft scandals overshadow the Korean truce talks and the confused debate over U.S. mobilization...
...could anyone discover such exotic creatures? In museums, where Marianne Moore loves to peer, and in such dependable sources as the National Geographic and the Illustrated London News. Like all true poets, she is an armchair explorer, her imagination serving as an inner eye. But anyone looking for soulful murk will not find it here. She does not flaunt her secret suffering: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence but restraint...
...murk and confusion that befogs and embitters many people, your Jan. 8 review of the works of Dean Gooderham Acheson brilliantly searches out, in a most inspiring fashion, the intricacies of this much-abused controversy...