Word: halifax
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...this charming memoir, half of PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer news team deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still...
...five powers that would become permanent members of the Security Council. He got all the papers at once but created a bigger sensation by doling out his scoops for days, one at a time. The FBI was put on his trail; an enraged Secretary of State called up Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, demanding to know whether he had leaked. Halifax denied it, then barred Reston from the embassy. Actually, Reston's source was the Chinese...
...Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Rolf Nygren, 47, and Jasvir $ Singh, 36, as they returned a rental car in Halifax. Meanwhile, a Canadian Forces patrol boat, alerted by a Coast Guard spotter plane, overtook and stopped the 497-ton Amelie, a Chilean-registered ship flying the Costa Rican flag that had secretly left the Dutch port of Rotterdam in late June. Canadian authorities were uncertain whether the immigrants, who paid from $1,200 to $2,500 in Canadian funds for the trip, boarded the ship in the Dutch port or were picked up en route. What they did learn...
...autobiography, Born in Tibet, Trungpa went on to say he was delivered in a cattle byre in February 1939, and that on that day a rainbow was seen and a water pail was found unaccountably full of milk. When he died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last April 4, leaving eleven published books, five sons and a widow, Trungpa, who was called Rinpoche (a Tibetan honorific meaning precious one) by thousands of his Buddhist students, a remarkable odyssey came to a close -- at least in this life. The journey actually began months before Rinpoche's birth, when a holy man died...
They touched off a cannon about noon and fired the crematorium, sending dark smoke into the clean blue sky. "He would have loved this," said one of the directors from Halifax. When the flames burned low, there were rainbows round . the sun, and the clouds the smoke had formed were multicolored. A student said she wouldn't be surprised if they had put chemicals on the fire...