Word: alberta
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...Edmonton, Alberta, native was introduced to the game as soon as he could walk and quickly developed his team-first, never-say-die attitude...
...minute meeting with Bush, Trudeau addressed the issue that concerns Canadians most: whether the U.S. will test the low-flying, turbofan-powered cruise missile in northeastern Alberta. The Prime Minister repeated his personal view that the U.S. should be allowed to conduct the tests on Canadian soil, but he told the Vice President bluntly that the full Cabinet had not yet given its consent to the project. Eager to defuse any tension, Bush later declared that President Reagan has "a driving, motivated desire" to achieve strategic arms reductions with the Soviets. He also acknowledged that Canada's agreement with...
...problem began last April, when U.S. officials asked the Canadians for permission to test unarmed cruise missiles at the Primrose Lake test range in northeastern Alberta. The Pentagon argued that the region's vast stretches of snow-covered wasteland made it similar to Siberia and thus a suitable proving ground for the missile's sophisticated terrain-reading equipment. Trudeau tentatively agreed to the proposal. But the news was leaked to a Canadian reporter in Washington, and it ended up on the front page of newspapers across Canada. In the uproar that followed, Trudeau hastily denied any binding commitment...
Rittenburg's major obstacle was the pole vault, so the summer between his sophomore and junior years, he went about remedying that situation. He headed to Edmonton, Alberta to live with his Harvard roommate Dave Grace and join the Edmonton Olympic Track and Field club. There he competed all through the summer and worked on his pole vaulting...
...have been as bad as she says she was, but at Dago Frank's Alberta Hunter learned about singing and everything else. "There was a woman there, Tack Annie, who was one of the world's greatest pickpockets. She looked like a horse with a hat on, the ugliest woman I ever saw in my life! The girls taught me how to look after myself so that I was hip when fellows would come to me and tell me they were going to buy me clothes and make me a prostitute. I could laugh...