Word: slushing
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...slush...
...lighting of the yard, with a childlike and beautiful faith that the moon would shine brightly through the heavy clouds that covered the sky last evening, did not light the yard lamps and the unfortunates who happened to venture out were left to stumble blindly through the mud and slush. "Economy is the road to wealth...
...estimated that three feet of snow and four and a half feet of slush have fallen in Cambridge since the first snow storm in December...
...buildings. Every evening that the moon is expected to appear, the lamps in the yard are left unlit. Now it very frequently happens that a rain or snow storm comes up, when the moon is entirely hidden, and the belated wanderer is left to feel his way through the slush or mud in the yard as best he may, trusting to the gods for guidance. In a college like Harvard it is nothing less than disgraceful that such a state of affairs should exist...
...lands where the thermometer does not jump frantically from forty degrees below zero in six hours; where one can wake up in the morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks, and not have to step gingerly along, expecting each moment to sink ankle deep...