Word: sleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though snow, sleet and fog shrouded the runway, the Grumman Gulfstream private jet ignored instructions to stay aloft and proceeded to land. Aboard was too heavy a load of dreams and ambitions to be put off by the elements. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller had arrived hi Grand Forks, N. Dak. After two appearances, the Governor, with half a dozen Republican notables in tow, flew on to Minot, N. Dak. Addressing the guests at a $100-a-plate dinner, the first ever held by local Republicans, Rocky paid glowing tribute to every politician in the room: "I had the pleasure...
Only 900 fans braved the sleet, slush, and cold to see Sanders' first home win, but those that did were treated to sound fundamental basketball...
Maybe from the sleet tacking down...
Last week Angelo was back in the press section of the presidential jet for a stretch of hard campaigning that within two days encountered gale winds in Montana, a sleet storm in Wyoming, and heat of 102° F. in Southern California. "First Ladies," says Angelo, "are no longer treated as perishable commodities...
...cope with any physical hardship. As she says of herself, "I do or die. I never cancel out." Certainly she has had plenty of excuses. In Yellowstone National Park she sat through a seemingly interminable speech by Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, her hands gloveless and numb as sleet pelted the frozen, huddled crowd. In Billings, Mont., a 40-m.p.h. wind ripped down the WELCOME PAT banner at the airport, left the assembled Crow Indians shivering in their buckskins, and carried away Pat's words in spite of the microphone in front of her. She finished her speech...