Word: canadianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catharine's R.C. of Canada regained the lightweight eights title after a two-year lapse by edging Harvard. The Canadian boat covered the course in 16:00.92, Harvard...
...talking literature? -- that it took a few scenes before she hit the pitch back: "I think Susan Sontag is brilliant!" So there. Alerted by friends to this great debate, the flesh-and-blood Sontag left Bull Durham off her must-see list. She well remembered watching a French-Canadian film, The Decline of the American Empire, a few years ago. In that one, a plump Casanova confides that the woman he most wants to sleep with is . . . Susan Sontag. Out in the audience, the startled woman of his dreams grimaced. "It was like somebody threw a spitball...
Mernick's family has long dealt in real estate, and his worth is estimated at $40 million. Heretofore he has made more mundane investments: landfill sites, travel agencies and assorted properties. He negotiated with M.C. ("Red") Benton, the wily PTL trustee named by a federal bankruptcy court, outbidding another Canadian with a $115 million offer. Some $65 million of that is supposed to be dispersed eventually among PTL creditors, the IRS and the 114,200 "lifetime partners" who each gave Bakker $1,000 or more to help develop the ministry...
When present Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon graduated from the University of Washington in 1978, professional teams were interested in drafting him--but only as a defensive back. Moon instructed NFL teams not to draft him, instead opting for the Canadian Football League. Moon played quarterback and led the Edmonton Eskimos to five consecutive championships...
After all, he said, John Frobisher held the first Thanksgiving dinner in Canadian territory in 1583, 37 years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock...