Word: sleet
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...game was played in the driving rain which turned to sleet in the second half and snow as the game ended. The field, which was originally well-kept short-cropped grass with no dirt spots, had absorbed a heavy downpour for nearly 24 hours and was a best spongy. Dispersed liberally about were ankle-deep icy pools or mud slicks, especially at midfield and in the penalty areas...
Three Ribbons. At midweek Ike had finished his report. He bundled his wife Mamie and his mother-in-law Mrs. Doud (who had joined him at West Point) into his Constellation and flew to Washington in muck and driving sleet,* landed at the National Airport and saluted the extraordinary committee of welcome-shivering generals, ambassadors, members of the Cabinet-and the President of the U.S., who wrung his hand and led him to his limousine, shooing off photographers with the anxious comment, "We can't give this fellow pneumonia." President and general drove off to the White House...
Yesterday's snow storm brought about eight additional inches of snow to the northern New England ski areas. Some of the southern slopes may be iced by sleet today, but the high country appears to have the best cover so far this season...
Afterward, one passenger remembered seeing "the fence coming" and hearing someone yell: "We're going to crash." Within seconds, the National Airlines DC-4 was skidding along the sleet-coated runway of Philadelphia's International Airport. It ran off the runway, through a ditch. Its landing gear disintegrated, flames shot from a ruptured fuel tank...
East of the Mississippi, the weather (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) made footballs take some strange bounces. Gales, snow, sleet, rain and mud-the great levelers-made fumbling bumblers out of All-America candidates, made even the lowliest underdog look good, raised line-smashing fullbacks to an importance never intended for them in the hipper-dipper T-formation system...