Word: sleet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappeared and its traces had been erased by plowing. America's farms were small; its citizens tilled a hundred, or thirty, or even five acres of soybeans, cotton or berries in a land where a thousand acres is the measure of a man of substance. But as the sleet swept in across the familiar fields, America was busy, contented and full of hope...
...next day, St. Laurent attended Low Mass at Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral, then went to lunch as guest of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. When he left for home (by train, because sleet prevented flying over the St. Lawrence), St. Laurent could safely leave the i-dotting details to be worked out on the embassy level. During the 45-hour visit, Harry Truman, no linguist, had almost learned how to pronounce his guest's name. It came out "San Loran...
Forecast. In Manhattan, newsmen who had tramped through a sleet-and-rain-storm to cover the 101st national meeting of the American Meteorological Society reported that most of the 200-odd delegates had come without galoshes or raincoats...
...best golfers shivered and pulled on wool mittens between shots. It was hardly the weather they had expected for the $15,000 Los Angeles Open, played down the sleek Riviera Country Club course. High winds raised hob with tee shots, and one afternoon came bursts of hail and sleet-and then snow. Defending Champ Ben Hogan (TIME, Jan. 10) started off as badly as the weather, and got worse...
...Winter of 1948-49 will not be as cold on the whole as the winter just past. However .. . there will be frequent storms of rain and sleet as well as snow which will create unusually icy conditions...