Word: bungalowed
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From Lonsdale the trail led to a bungalow in suburban Ruislip, just outside London. There, middle-aged Peter and Helen Kroger had set up a modest book business in the front room. Hospitable and friendly, the Krogers had long been neighborhood favorites. Neighbor George Hammond recalled that Mrs. Kroger had dropped around only a couple of hours before her arrest with some fresh bones...
...earned local fame as a healer with one modest improvement on witch doctors' methods: he routed out decayed teeth with pliers instead of a spear or rusty nail. The hospital was 40 miles from the nearest railway; when the Barkers took over, it was an iron-roofed bungalow compound inhabited by a poorly trained staff of nine, seven invalids, two cows...
When Dougal comes among these people, as director of "human research" in Mr. Druce's textile firm, the tangled fabrics of their lives come suddenly and bewilderingly apart. Dixie Morse, who is working nights at a cinema in order to save money for a model bungalow, refuses to sleep any longer with Humphrey Place, and he, in turn, leaves her at the altar. Mr. Weedin, the personnel manager, looks into Dougal's bewitched eyes and at "the alarming bones of his hands" and suffers a nervous breakdown. Mr. Druce himself, suspecting that Dougal is a police informer...
Toward sundown, almost nine hours after the siege had begun, the bungalow caught fire. Shotgun in hand, Raymond leaped from a second-story window and sprinted for his car parked in the driveway. Machine-gun bullets ripped him down. Four innocent men and women were dead; five others were wounded. And the curse had claimed the quiet...
...young TANU Party in the drive for African rule. At first a fiery radical, Edinburgh University-trained Nyerere (pronounced Nyuh-ray-ree) grew more moderate when the British authorities agreed to a multiracial government. "Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way," he preached from his modest bungalow in Dar es Salaam. But his goal never changed: "The African must and will rule. Our unity is our weapon." Relieved to find a leader with such common sense, the British in December agreed to "responsible" government with an African legislative majority in Tanganyika for a four-year transition period...