Word: sleeting
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April is indeed the crudest month, especially in Britain. Wind-driven gusts of rain, sleet and snow last week caused a stirring of the earth's dull roots from John o' Groats in the North Sea to Lizard Point on the English Channel. Memory and desire were mixed with the drifting London fog, the wet pavements iridescent with lights, the factory smoke shrouding the Midlands, and files of miners with blackened faces trudging home from the pits...
...walls and, stacked high on the floor and chairs, along with glasses for fine wine, tobacco and pipes, two large knives, and a rifle resting on the couch. He apologized slightly for the disorder--"I've just come back from Oxford"--and he remarked, with an eye to the sleet falling outside, that Europe had been worse--all wrapped...
...students stood in a V formation at one corner of the triangle for 45 minutes holding a sign saying "We support Berkeley Free Speech." The vigil broke up at 4:45 p.m. When the Brandeis bus driver said he wanted to leave "before it starts to sleet...
...Seattle Zen Master Takizaki and, finally, the abstract expressionism of Mark Tobey (who selected this show). Horiuchi's abstract collages, composed of torn bits of rice and mulberry paper stained in misty shades of grey, evoke not so much nature's shapes as its weathery moods-sleet, snow, rain...
Leashes, Anyone? At the noon starting gun the temperature was in the 30s, and a 20-m.p.h. head wind pelted the marathoners with sleet. Water seeped through the soles of their thin racing shoes. Here and there, an angry dog snapped at a runner's ankles, although an A.S.P.C.A. truck drove ahead, offering free leashes to bystanders with mutts. A few little boys tried to press orange slices into their heroes' hands. A pair of collegians, wearing shirts emblazoned "Pseudo A.C.," loped up to harry the leaders until the cops shooed them...