Word: sleet
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...society meets once a week, through rain, snow, sleet or injury. “We push through because we’re not average” says Black. “This is Harvard. Go hard or go home.” The Society plans to continue to play regularly throughout the winter. It should be noted, however, that both founders of the club are from Texas and may not really understand how cold and nasty New England can be. Aside from planned weekend gatherings, the croquet society also has spontaneous night-time events, most of which occur around...
...director of theater going into film," he says, "is you only have to achieve something once." He still directs plays back home, but he's become a convert to film, enchanted with the ability of movie vets like Hanks and Newman to stay in character through rain, sleet or snow: "It could be 5 a.m., pissing down rain and minus 30 degrees--they've still got their fingers on the triggers. They are able to fire whenever required...
Beyond that, there are the obvious physical differences—cream-colored sandstone walls instead of ivy-covered brick; year-long sunshine and tall palms instead of gray skies, cold sleet and cramped urban environs...
...devil’s bargain, trading sun and sand for a college experience that was, until this week, relatively free of natural disasters. In making my college decision, I had carefully determined that I could deal with snow, sleet, and even Derek Jeter, but only if I was free from seismic events...
...That's the kind of slit-throat warfare the Pentagon tried to prepare the public for early in the conflict. But so far there hasn't been much of it. Some planned commando infiltrations have been sabotaged by sandstorms, sleet and Taliban resistance. Bad weather caused the crash last Friday of an MH-53 Pave Low helicopter in northern Afghanistan, injuring four crewmen. U.S. F-14s blew up the wreckage of the downed helicopter to prevent its secret equipment from falling into hostile hands. Pentagon officials dismissed Taliban claims that it had shot down the helicopter and killed...