Word: fada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tarmac where an R.A.F. Hastings transport plane was parked. Already in custody beside the Hastings were three other Cypriot clerics, including Kyprianos Themistok-leous Kyriakides, Bishop of Kyrenia. At 4:30 p.m. the Hastings took off for Kenya, where the Cypriots were transferred to H.M. Frigate Loch Fada, which set out for the Seychelles Islands, a British crown colony in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles east of Kenya, and just south of the Equator. Here the archbishop will be confined to a small bungalow, 1,800 feet above the sea, which Lady Addis, wife of the resident British...
Johnson just can't help acting like a big shot. What he imagines, he believes, and his imagination works overtime. His parties are the biggest in the town of Fada, with plenty of gin and beer bought on the cuff, and clearly audible at two miles. He boasts about his imagined friendship with the British District Officer, and is delighted to hear that that dignitary's wife is coming from England to join him. Johnson has no idea what the woman looks like, but he has no trouble, on that account, describing her to Bamu: "Her cheeks...
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