Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa, strawberry plants bloomed and lilac bushes burst their buds. In Winnipeg, it was pussy willows. As Torontonians curiously watched their city experiment with a new machine that sucks fallen leaves from gutters like a vacuum cleaner, newspapers reported that Oct. 20 was the hottest in history. The high of 76° topped the 1884 record by a full five degrees...
...wore on, and the CCF played to packed rallies, it began to look as if the socialists would be a major factor-by drawing votes from the old-line parties. But in the end, York-Sunbury was less interested in political ideologies than in having a Cabinet minister in Ottawa...
...Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimifz went the honorary rank of chief of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan and the aboriginal monicker Be-Lea-Nage (The Winner). And to the nation from the Admiral went an announcement: he would retire from active duty around the middle of December...
...chairman of the U.N. Assembly's special committee on Palestine. Last week, U.N. delegates talked about giving him that job again. But Minister St. Laurent sidestepped. "Mike" Pearson was needed at home. Said the Toronto Globe & Mail, acidly: "If Mr. Pearson could readily be spared from Ottawa, he would not be the kind of man whose services are in demand for major U.N. undertakings...
...argument as far as the issue of amateurism was concerned. As everyone knew, teams drawing bumper crowds were piling up receipts. Although club owners wouldn't talk, payments to players in eastern Canada's Big Four Union-Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Rough Riders-reputedly ranged from $50 to $150 a game, with some players getting from $1,500 to $5,000 a season. In spite of the Revenue Department's ruling, Canada's rugger players seemed strictly professional...