Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking Quebec from the rest of English-speaking Canada. Estimates of its strength run from a handful to a few score-and so far the cops have no idea who the leaders are. But neither Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage nor the federal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson dismisses the FLQ lightly. For behind the bombs and bombast lie deep-rooted grievances that affect all of French Canada's 5,500,000 citizens. The vast majority of them do not want to be separate. But they do want to be equal...
...gibe was unjust, but for a time it almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message for modern times...
...about the "Hancock Country Club." Today, the church has ten such groups of dedicated parishioners and their friends who meet for serious religious study in one another's houses. Dozens of other churches in the area have imitatively organized their own small study groups. Such gatherings, says Dr. Pearson, now dean of Andover Newton Theological School, show people "trying to be the church as the church ought...
...Mops flew and paintbrushes were busy at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport. It was spring cleaning time, and special elbow grease was necessary. Lester B. Pearson, Canada's Prime Minister of a month, was flying in for the first weekend of the season, and the President wanted everything shipshape. Up from Washington hurried a special housekeeping crew to clear away the winter's cobwebs from Kennedy's rambling white clapboard cottage. Across the way at Bobby's house, where Mike Pearson would sleep, roofers scampered around repairing gutters and tacking down loose shingles. Well drillers sank...
...Bobby Kennedy's digs, just a football pass across the lawn from the President's own home, and the talk will go on over poached eggs at breakfast, at bull sessions lounging in overstuffed chairs, and during walks along the beach. The U.S. President wants to brief Pearson on how things look around the world, discuss trade expansion and reach some understanding on nuclear arms. But there will be no pressing and no pronouncements at Hyannisport-only a chance to restore U.S.-Canadian neighborliness to its traditional trust...