Word: careening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel of racial misalliance is often given to such trait slinging, and The Lonely Conqueror is no exception. The hero, Sergeant John Baako, U.S. Army, has colored skin, but beneath it lies a colorless stereotype. As Baako and his German sweetheart careen from the valley of the Rhine to the hinterlands of the Zambezi, the common indignities, predictably enough, cluster upon them like cattle flies. But when she says, "I know a lot of men who aren't half the man you are, even though their skin is the same color as mine"; and when he feels "inferior...