Sunday's Word Jumble answers:
Sizzle.
Behind.
Bathe.
Guide.
Ben Franklin and his grandson William Temple were
behind on the news that would
sizzle the passions of many a rebel and push them into quick action. The Minutemen of Concord
bathed in the April 19, 1775 victory over the Redcoats and the lessons learned in those fights would
guide many frontiersmen to join in the War. Franklin and his grandson were on a ship crossing the Atlantic during which they also took several the water's temperature three or four times a day. They were charting the Gulf Stream.
http://www.masshist.org/revolution/lexington.php http://www.nha.org/history/hn/HN-v44n2-gulfstream.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles...on_and_Concord
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Fea...franklin_2.php (This NASA site says it was on the way to England in 1775 but that sounds wrong from my research so I sent NASA an e-mail about it!)
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson [New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003] , p. 290.