Word: sleeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about his game ever since the winter tour began. He failed to survive the cut in the Los Angeles Open, was out of the money in the San Diego Open, debated quitting the tour before the Bing Crosby tournament. But to Ford, the rugged courses and trying weather (rain, sleet, snow, hail, 40-m.p.h. winds) of California's Monterey Peninsula proved peculiarly hospitable. On the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with chunky Joe Campbell, Ford collected the winner's purse...
...Sleet in Chicago? In Academe, the cardinal sin is open talk about jobs. One never seeks; one is sought. Mostly, this means a labyrinthine feeling-out between men in the same field at different campuses. The nuances are endless. When a dean in sunny Texas asks on the phone, "Is it still sleeting in Chicago?", he may be implying a full-scale job offer. Or he may not; a major gaucherie, of course, is for a professor to react to a feeler that wasn't there...
...doesn't snow today, there may be a "light sleet." If there's no sleet, there's bound to be a little rain. Or it may just stay cloudy, windy, and what the Weather Bureau chooses to call "seasonably cold...
...traffic controller hunched over his radarscope one morning last week as he nursed Trans World Airlines' Super Constellation Flight 266 (from Dayton and Columbus) through rain, sleet and snow toward New York's La Guardia Airport. At 10:35 an unexpected blip slid across his scope, and he picked up his microphone to call Flight 266 with unaccustomed urgency...
According to the AAA, the snow forecast for early this morning will make the Massachusetts Turnpike particularly dangerous. The weather bureau at Logan Airport predicted a four inch accumulation beginning between 3 and 4 a.m. with rain or sleet following...