Word: bookwormish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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