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Word: canadians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Endwise. In Ottawa, Canadian Agriculture Minister Douglas Harkness sent an edict through his department saying that henceforth documents would refer to work as "completed," "concluded," or "finished," but under no circumstances would any work be "finalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

National characteristics not only show up in food, fashion and love, but also in sport-particularly in ice hockey. Canada's own game is like the land itself: rugged and bruising, a body-contact sport something like a combination of lacrosse (another Canadian game) and football. European hockey is so different as to be barely recognizable at times. While Canadians are trained to deliver solid body and board checks, the Europeans tend to play hockey like soccer, as a game of finesse with greater emphasis on pinpoint passing and Fancy Dan pattern plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tough & Triumphant | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Finland they were pelted with snowballs, accused of being a "hooligan gang." In West Germany, Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung cried that the MacFarlands played "like a bunch of hoodlums . . . ramming down everything that came in their way." Countered MacFarland Assistant Manager Billy Reay: "We are just playing Canadian-style hockey, and European fans are not used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tough & Triumphant | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...fierce body checks, breezed to a 3-1 victory. Playing in the same style, the U.S. flattened Sweden, 7-1. The victories were so convincing that the Europeans laid on the rough stuff themselves. Both the Czechs and the Swedes whacked their opponents to the ice in the best Canadian style. Even the Soviets, bruised by the MacFarlands, brawled in most uncomradely fashion with the Czechs before winning 4-3 in a game dotted with 15 penalties. But the Europeans will have to wait until next year. Canada beat down the opposition and went home with its third world championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tough & Triumphant | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Though he does not act his age, John knows that at 77 he cannot count on a long reign. "Well, here I am-at the end of the road and the top of the heap," he told visiting Canadian Premier John Diefenbaker. At another audience he said: "I who have come to the pontificate at such an advanced age do not despair of receiving from the Lord at least the time conceded to St. Agatho [Pope from 678 to 681]. There are so many things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Old Man | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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