Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular admiral, while Charles became a fairly decent general. But John-who had already got his start in that affair with Barbara-was to outstrip them...
This is the story of an American missionary nurse's love affair with Africa. Slim, thirtyish Rachel Cade can take sex or leave it alone, but she is not really interested in it. She quits her first post because a married doctor keeps breathing amorously on her neck. At her next post, Dibela, in the Belgian Congo, the resident doctor dies the night she arrives, leaving her the only white within miles. In short order she climbs the sacred Mountains of the Moon and invites a couple of thahus (curses) from the local medicine men. So there...
...does not stay alone for long, however, because people keep dropping in. First, there is a U.S. doctor named Paul Wilton, the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle. Since Dibela needs his medical skills, Rachel has a purposeful affair with him, even manages to convince herself that they are in love, and bears his illegitimate child (after he leaves). The next arrival is Caleb Aldrich, a malarial preacher who loves Africa nearly as much as Rachel does, and they both settle down to properly married life among the Bantus-not before hesitant Caleb has been pulled together...
...cannot prevent it," Eliot said. "It is entirely voluntary. It is an affair between...
...urged Morocco's Berber minority to rebel against "Arab domination" and "the Arab Sultan." No one seriously believed that a handful of leaflets would succeed in inflaming the Berbers, who are fiercely loyal to Sultan Mohammed V. Nonetheless, the Moroccan government had decided to use "the Berber tract affair" as an excuse for mass deportation of French extremist leaders...