Word: nile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news gaily. She had just finished work on her latest movie. She said goodbye to steaming Cairo, stepped into her limousine, headed north for a cool vacation on the Mediterranean. While she was laughing over a joke her maid was telling her, the car skidded, plunged into a deep Nile canal, carried Ismahan to death...
...island fortress of Zawi-Re in Lower Egypt. When this volume opens, Joseph is a prisoner, brooding on the wreckage of his life and the mystery of Egypt, while a boat hustles him off to jail through the bustle of Egypt's busiest highway, the Nile. Ashamed, defeated, heartsick, and yet never without a mild, detached humor and a powerful conviction of future triumph, Joseph thinks how much this imprisonment is like his first descent into the pit when his brothers stole his coat of many colors...
...Sachme. The fortress of Zawi-Re was a group of gloomy buildings on an island in the Mendesian arm of the Nile. When Joseph first saw the prison he divined that he would be there three years. He was right. Joseph was 27. Joseph's jailer, the warden of Zawi-Re, was Mai-Sachme, a soldier and physician, a short, dark, calm man of 40.* Mai-Sachme made Joseph an overseer. Into the isolated life of genial Jailer Mai-Sachme, who was like an intelligent modern officer serving in a frontier post, Joseph brought a breath of the great...
Some other Calvert students: a trailer-housed family of professional rollerskaters; a child on a Montana Indian reservation; a Vermont spastic; an Oregon child with a speech defect; a missionary's child on the Congo-Nile watershed; an Alaskan reindeer rancher's child; the governess-taught child of a Newport socialite...
...bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur. They carried long durra stalks, symbolizing spears. As they approached the sacred river, they chanted age-old incantations, their meanings lost in history. At Nile-edge they met another bodyguard, bearing bamboo poles with ostrich feathers, defending the revered founder, Nyakang. With thongs of twisted grass, the guards of Nyakang bound the willing Anei Kur, marched him into Fashoda...