Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington he could seize on, Diefenbaker tried to stir up anti-Americanism, a brew not so effective as it once was, but still heady. "Nobody pushes Canada around," he warned, especially not a nation that took 27 months longer than Canada to enter the Second World War. The Toronto Star accused him of talking like "some alcoholic patriot in a tavern...
...born in turn-of-the-century Newtonbrook, Ont., now swallowed up by an expanding Toronto. The second son of an itinerant $700-a-year Methodist minister, Pearson likes to say: "We were rich in everything but money." His father, the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, who was known to his congregations as "the baseball-bashing parson," taught his sons baseball, hockey, football, and a firm sense of Methodist duty. Lester also learned something about politics from his maternal grandfather, who lost every time he stood for Parliament...
When World War I flared, Pearson joined the University of Toronto Ambulance Unit, and in 1915 shipped out with the British forces to Salonika. Recalls a comrade: "We pictured ourselves as doing deeds of heroism under enemy fire. We didn't realize that we would wash floors, clean people's backsides and empty bedpans...
...first solo flight, after just 1½ hours' instruction, he met a high wire in his landing path, tried to lift his skittery DH4 over it, stalled and crashed. Bruised and shaken, Pearson spent a week in hospital. He finished the war as a training instructor in Toronto...
Pearson returned to the University of Toronto as a history lecturer and part-time football and hockey coach. In 1925 he married the prettiest student in his history seminar, Maryon Elspeth Moody, a Winnipeg doctor's daughter. "I taught her for a year," quips Pearson, "and she's been teaching me ever since...