Word: bookwormish
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...unknown what drew the bookwormish Rosario and the unintellectual Ames together. The larger question is who turned whose patriotic loyalties. Was Rosario the original turncoat, playing along with Ames in order to recruit him for her Moscow handlers? Or was Ames a double agent by then, persuading Rosario to spy first on Colombia for the U.S., then on the U.S. for the Soviet Union? Two FBI officials involved in the case insist that Ames was turned first and that Rosario went along, subsequently displaying aggressive greed...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...
...bookwormish, overfond of baker's buns. His father, a St. Louis lawyer, christened him Edward H. O'Hare. But the neighborhood dubbed him "Butch." Hard-muscled, no longer fat, he was still "Butch" when he took his diploma at Annapolis, then went on to Pensacola to train as a U.S. Navy flyer...
Twelve-year-old King Peter II heard this verdict with visible relief. A serious, bookwormish boy, His Majesty has been plugging hard not only at his studies but in his carpentry shop. This started when the King told his mother the Queen that he needed more spending money and Her Majesty replied that by making small wooden articles and selling them to courtiers His Majesty could make as much pocket money as would be good...
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