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...waits at the polls that are extraordinary and unprecedented in a country that has been used to 85 percent turnouts in precinct elections," McWhirter reports. "At Eddie O'Sullivan College in downtown Montreal, police cars diverted a full block of honking traffic so that voters could stand in freezing sleet waiting to take a number and go inside. They're being cheered on by passers-by just to give them a little solidarity in these very cold and dark nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONK IF YOU'RE CANADIAN | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...just felt like you were in the presence ofa legend," said audience member Michael C. Sleet...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Brooks Speaks at Black Men's Forum | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...sleet and ice here [Monday] night," she said. "Over 500 people came out, even in that weather. That's over half of the graduate students...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Yale's Grad Students Issue Strike Ultimatum | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...snowfall, which amounted to six and a half inches by Saturday evening, turned to rain and sleet later that night. Yesterday, roads and sidewalks were slippery, and the wind gusted up to 40 miles per hour...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Winter Returns With a Vengeance | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...that weren't enough, the game was interrupted about a third of the way through with an alternating downpour of snow, sleet and rain...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Laxmen Start Fast But Fall to Eagles | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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