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Word: canadianization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There they were, jammed together in the Shell Room of Miami Beach's Doral Beach Hotel, along with 600 music lovers and curiosity seekers of unrestricted tastes. First, Guy Lombardo, 62, borrowed four musicians from Count Basie, 60, for several numbers that sounded Royally Canadian. The Count countered by swiping eight guys from Guy, for a medley indistinguishable from basic Basie. But it took that great ham operator, Jackie Gleason, 49, to get the bands jamming together, when, with short waves of his smoldering cigarette, he led the 32-man combined ensemble through Rampart Street and Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1965 | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at the height of the French Canadian separatist terrorism in 1963, the commission dug back into Canadian history, traveled all across the country interviewing hundreds of organizations and more than 11,000 individuals. It reported that while English-speaking Canadians are basically satisfied with their lives, French Canadians are not and are in an increasingly dangerous mood about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: How Far Can the French Opt Out? | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...explained by the commission, the French Canadian complaints are those of second-class citizenship. French Canadians feel that their countrymen pay nothing more than lip service to the idea of biculturalism. French is a foreign language in two-thirds of the country; road signs and transportation schedules are in English only; the federal government in Ottawa operates mainly in English. English Canadians hold the best civil service jobs. In Quebec itself, English-speaking outsiders control the major corporations. For a long time, noted the commission, "French-speaking Quebec acted as though it had accepted the idea of merely being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: How Far Can the French Opt Out? | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...Wood spent hours plodding picket lines and insulting cops, managed to gain Collier's confidence, and joined the conspirators' inner circle. He kept a daily diary of the lunatic schemings. Soon, every detail of the plot was known to New York cops, the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: The Monumental Plot | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Originally a Canadian innovation (the Mounties use them to track their man), the machine grips all kinds of snow with a tanklike traction belt of metal cleats. Outboard Marine Corp., maker of Evinrude and Johnson motors, produced two new U.S. models priced at $895, and found it had started something of a fad. The number of snowmobiles sold nationally jumped to 10,300 this year, double last year's sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Sit-Down Skiing | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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