Word: sleeting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chile's presidential campaign, made necessary by the death in June of President Rios, was under way in the sleet and snow of Andean winter. Torn by feuds and prides that cut as deep as cleavages among the leftists, conservatives could unite on no single man. Chileans had been about ready to swing to the right, but many now hoped for a middle way. With four candidates in the field, it was a wide-open race after...
General Eisenhower's four-day visit was a personal triumph-and something more. Canadians appreciated his direct, sincere praise of Canadian fighting men, the way he stepped from his car in the sleet for an unscheduled salute to the National War Memorial, and stood between Prime Minister Mackenzie King and the Earl of Athlone and sang God Save the King. They liked the honesty with which he said he hated war, would "devote what talents I have for the rest of my days to working for peace...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories, the specially reeled wire, with a weighted parachute attached at the starting point, snakes out of coils in the plane at 250 ft. a second. The Tennessee-North Carolina line was turned over to the National Park Rangers, served for five weeks until a sleet storm sheathed the wire with ice and caused a break. By & large, wire-laying by plane is useful only in emergency: flood, earthquake...
This week there was more trouble to be met. Much of the East was lashed by a new sleet storm. There were gloomy predictions that the railroads had got so far behind that the crisis might not be completely over until April...
...with flu. Hollywood's Florence Rice took her place. Then Actress Rice began to sniffle. Producer de Liagre raided his Chicago company, had Understudy Nancy Holland rushed by plane to Manhattan. Soon after she arrived, honey-blond, willowy K. T. Stevens, the Chicago lead, was reported sick abed. Sleet and freezing rain grounded Margaret Sullavan, who was trying to fly back from California to help out. Producer de Liagre still had competent actors to read them, but most of his actresses were too stuffed up to reply to the play's punch lines...