Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal elsewheres is the federal capital of Ottawa, where a French-speaking civil servant who receives a letter in French must send it to a translation bureau to be put into English. Even French-speaking civil servants are required to communicate with each other in English; it simplifies filing...
...chowder. White House Chef Rene Verdon had bought $150 worth of food at a Hyannis supermarket, and carefully insisted on his full quota of trading stamps. Years of Diplomacy. A friendly crowd of 500 was at Otis Air Force Base as Pearson's Comet touched down from Ottawa. After striding forward to meet his northern neighbor, Kennedy set the tone of the meeting. "We share more than geography," he said. "A history, a common commitment to freedom and a common hope for freedom, and in this great cause Canada and the U.S. stand side by side." Then...
...famous State Department memo that somehow fell into Diefenbaker's hands after the President's 1961 Ottawa visit was rumored to have a notation penciled by Kennedy referring to Diefenbaker as an s.o.b. Washington insists Kennedy would never have done such a thing...
...Quebec M.P.s who bolted party lines, independently promised their votes to Pearson. "I will not tolerate any deals," said Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, hinting darkly that the Liberals had been spreading some "rather handsome" money around. But after eleven hours of impassioned oratory at a party caucus in Ottawa, the defectors recanted. As soon as they did, Thompson grandly announced that all 24 of his Socreds would support the Liberals anyway, and urged Pearson to act as if he had a majority government...
Only in the last word of the novel is it made clear that Smith and Jones are really a couple of Iron Curtain diplomats -and here the surprise ending pops like a paper bag-in "that strange faraway foreign capital, Ottawa." Yes, all the time they were really Communists who have defected to the West...