Word: sleeting
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Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...
...Rain, sleet, snow fell on the Western Front. Rivers rose two feet higher. Mud deepened. Despite continued German troop concentrations and systematic artillery fire, consensus of military observers was increasingly against any Big Push by land this winter...
Then things began to happen, as a ripping sleet, hail, and rain storm hit the boats with the Crimson in the offshore lane. Up to this point the boats were rowing a usual race, with Cornell lagging with its characteristically slow start. The boats failed to emerge from the storm until after the race was ever, and at times they were completely obscured from the launches only a few yards away...
...horse, not Dopey, no wide-eyed, tender creature of the field or wood was chosen. The choice: a scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wherein two cadaverous vultures-black, grey, just a tip of vermilion on their cruel beaks-watch for the witch's death through sleet and gloom. Taken from their delicate context, the ominous birds seemed to be looking down on Europe...
...Rockies and across the flats of Utah one morning last week pounded the Flying Ute, crack fast freight of the Denver & Rio Grande Western and a great favorite with hobos. Coming into Midvale. 10 miles south of Salt Lake City, she was two hours late by fog, snow, sleet...