Word: sleeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lightning at Christmas. Then he gambled. Five nights later, in numbing cold on Christmas night, he took his little force across the ice-clogged Delaware. Wet, half-frozen, lashed by driving sleet, it marched nine miles to Trenton and surprised the town and its Hessian defenders. The Americans triumphed in less than two hours of fighting and without the loss of a man. They killed or wounded more than 100 of the enemy, captured 1,000 more, and with them, 1,000 muskets and six brass fieldpieces. Only three days later they audaciously invaded New Jersey again, and stayed...
...rain-maker's services may be at a premium this year, which has started off with the wettest spring on record. In the first four months of 1953 there was a total of 28.46 inches of precipitation (including rain, snow, hail and sleet). This is 15.59 inches over normal. In addition, March was the wettest March and the third wettest month in the 82-year history of the Boston weather bureau. April had more rain than any April since...
Neither team went south earlier, and both have had to sweat out the late New England weather indoors. And providing rain, sleet and snow don't interfere again, both will have to take their chance against injuries on what promises to be a rather sloppy diamond...
Rain, Snow, Sleet ... In the Monte Carlo Rally (TIME, Feb. 11), the race is not to the swiftest but to the surest and luckiest. The 404 entries from 20 nations took off from such widely scattered points as Stockholm, Lisbon, Glasgow and Palermo. The drivers ran into all sorts of hazards: rain, snow, sleet, fog, mechanical breakdowns, head-on crashes. In addition, eagle-eyed dockers at various points ticked off the cars as they passed, making sure that none exceeded the 65-kilometer-per-hour (40 m.p.h.) speed limit. A minute's delay here, too much speed there...
Paper Snow Fence. Chicago's Sisalkraft Co. offered a snow fence made of paper instead of wood lath. Made of 12-in.-wide strips of two-ply asphalt-treated paper attached to steel posts, the fence withstands sleet and rainstorms and high winds, costs about the same as conventional wood-slat fencing. Main advantage: a two-thirds saving in installation and maintenance expense...