Word: jacaranda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generations of Wavells. His father was and his son is with the famed Black Watch Regiment. Even his three daughters are in military work, and one is nicknamed Trooper. He is a strong family man who loves the luxury of spare time in his big Cairo house hidden in jacaranda trees behind the third hole of the Gezirah golf course. Finally, he is a reader, a thinker, not just a machine; he has put much thought on a post-war reconstruction of Britain around the "hard core of national courage...