Word: sleeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Day, epic voices echo from the grassy graves of the Civil War-Stonewall Jackson, vibrant and vital, writing his wife about his glory at First Bull Run: "God made my brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General...
Freshman harriers will brave wind and sleet in the annual intramural cross-country meet at 3:30 this afternoon. The four-man teams from each dormitory will leave from Newell boathouse and follow a 1.9 mile course up the river and back...
...Sneet-snow and sleet...
Happy Birthday. As snow sifted down and rain froze into sleet, no driver seemed to enjoy the cross-country competition more than Sheila. Just as she left Munich, word was passed that it was her 33rd birthday, and for the next two days Rally officials celebrated. At the Hamburg control point, Germans rose to a man and broke into a gutteral version of "Happy Birthday to You." On the Dutch border, smiling customs guards waved her steel-grey Sunbeam across the frontier. All along the way well-wishers gave her flowers, which she tossed into the rear seat where...
...hundreds of live toads congregate to breed in the school's lake or empty swimming pool. How do the toads get there? In 1950 Biology Teacher H. J. Moore collected a band of boys, started them on a Kinsey-type study of the annual migration. Through snow and sleet and dark of night, the study has gone on ever since...