Word: sleet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raining when the opening whistle blew. It began to sleet in the second quarter, when Foley threw a 25-yard pass to end Don Daughters for six points. Yale reared back to score, and seemed sure to kick the extra point, but All-East guard Al Kevorkian crashed through to save the half-time...
...drove to a score in 13 plays. Struck faked, spun, and cracked off tackle for twenty yards; Macdonald ran for more; and with the ball on the nine, Foley charged into his right tackle, faked, and cut outside to score standing up. Chief Boston lifted a kick through snow, sleet, rain, and mud, and it was all over. The tired Yale team never came back...
...June 26 and Aug. 26 it had made 15,853 flights, hauled 100,398 tons of food and other vital supplies to blockaded Berlin. Even more impressive, the planes had shuttled back & forth during the worst summer Germany had seen in years. Despite all the rain, fog and even sleet, GCA had brought the planes in for 850 blind landings without an accident...
...same time, a combination sleet, snow, rain and windstorm began driving across 16 states of the Midwest and Northeast. It was a sneaky, sloppy storm, full of windy obscenities. Its rain turned snowy roads to frigid mush, it iced everything it touched and hexed everything it missed...
...last the storm stopped. But for thousands of suburbanites, the memory lingered on. Among them was an airplane pilot, who had gone to his Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead...