Word: sleeting
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Snow fell the night before, turning to sleet in the morning. On the White House lawn, most of the 13 Roosevelt grandchildren were out early in their snowsuits, coasting on the gentle slopes...
Nazi tanks, crunching west through the mud and sleet of Luxembourg and Belgium last week, gave the U.S. two separate setbacks: one on the Western front, one on the home front. The size of the military defeat would be measured some day in American soldiers killed, wounded, captured. The shape of the home front defeat was already obvious. U.S. civilians would begin a not-so-happy New Year by paying penance for incorrigible optimism...
...Sleet-laden clouds hung like a leaden shroud over all the Kwangsi-Kweichow border area. Rime coated the tents and hutments of Chinese, Americans and Japanese alike. Icicles hung from the wings of Major General Claire L. Chennault's fighter-bombers, standing silent on the runways. For a hundred miles in every direction, columns of refugees and soldiers trudged through the hill paths and over roads broken by battle, their skin cracking with frostbite...
...sleet-streaked weather a fleet of 400 U.S. Eighth Air Force fighters ripped out to strafe oil storage depots in the Munich area and at Hanau (near Frankfurt). To the Germans the targets were important enough to send up fighters-for the first big-scale air battle in three weeks. Results: 86 Nazi aircraft destroyed; 16 U.S. lost. The same day a fleet of 650 U.S. heavy bombers, protected by 300 fighters, flew up from Italy to the Vienna area. Again the target was rocket-bomb fuel supplies...
...notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice,' the loges and stalls becoming igloos of inadequate shelter during sequences of gelid motets, sleet-sheeted symphonies, and polar-cold oratorios...