Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diefenbaker's opposition disputed the claim of instant crisis. "In fact," said Pearson, "the present emergency began to develop early this year." Social Credit's Réal Caouette, the funny-money oiator who led his créditistes to a surprising 26 seats in French-Canadian Quebec, put it in blunter fashion. "Diefenbaker knew it months ago; for the campaign, he was hiding those things," he said. "He ought to resign." Diefenbaker indicated that he would not call Parliament into session until September, so that noisy debates would not worsen the crisis. Opposition leaders might grumble...
...itself Social Credit, and it won 30 crucial votes that would be cast to keep the Conservatives in power, but could later be withheld at the appropriate time to bring Diefenbaker down. Its triumph was the victory of a shouting, arm-waving French Canadian auto dealer named Réal Caouette, 44, who overnight became a national figure. Le Tonnerre, he is called in rural Quebec-the Thunderer...
...Everyone. Until last week, Social Credit was a local Western phenomenon (the premiers of Alberta and British Columbia are Socreds). Yet Social Crediters won only four seats in the West. The movement's real strength now lies in French-speaking Quebec, where Réal Caouette's spellbinding appeal was worth an astonishing 26 of the province's 75 seats...
...intelligence. The island got its name-Isla de los Alcatraces, meaning Isle of the Pelicans - from the 18th century Spaniards, and only pelicans have ever been free to come and go easily. At one time Alcatraz held military prisoners; later it became a domicile for such eminent civilians as Al Capone and "Machine Gun" Kelly. Many have tried to escape, but all were either killed or recaptured, save for three, in 1937. who almost certainly drowned in the strong tidal currents...
...Sadoveanu's work is not so much the product of a different political system as of a different century. His real contemporaries are not Ehrenburg and Pasternak but Tolstoy and Turgenev, al though he has nothing like the power or skill of any of them. His customary setting is the Rumania of three generations past, a Ruritanian rural province of marshes and forests and rivers aswarm with ducks to be shot, trout to be caught, and canny peasants to be put upon by the local landowners (known as boyars...