Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some nuns were merely beaten up with bottles or gun butts, and one was slugged with a telephone, which the Simbas apparently considered bad dawa (magic). Three were raped. One nun, Sister Maria Therese, 36, resisted, and a Simba shattered both her kneecaps with a precisely aimed rifle shot. "It was night," recalled a surviving nun. "She was losing much blood, and the Simbas wouldn't let us near her. She died early in the morning after lying alone on the street for many hours." The Simbas then locked their prisoners back in the hotel, where most were ultimately...
...radio set-either transmitter or receiver-was considered a spy, calling in "Yankee" help against the cause. Sister Anne-Maria Merkens, mother superior of a mission hospital at Bondamba, 300 miles northwest of Stan, owned a tiny transistor radio. Simbas in leopardskins appeared in mid-September, accused the nuns of sending messages to the Americans, even though the radio was only capable of receiving signals. They returned a few weeks later, killed the mission's cows, stole its chickens and rice. On their next visit, they abducted schoolgirls aged 7 to 14, spent the night sniffing dope, dancing...
Doris Lessing has the rare skill to deal seriously with a female main character who falls into the large but artistically troublesome range between prostitute and nun. Perhaps because the novels are more autobiography than fiction, the author suffers curiously from her heroine's flaw of vision; she is unwilling to look with interest at anything outside Martha...
...please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist Erasmus to remark that the Reformation "had started out like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names...
...kind of play within the play, which ends with the death of Marat. He is stabbed in his tub by the patriot Charlotte Corday, who has spent the rest of the evening trying to dodge the gross advances of an indefatigable satyr who has his hand under a nun's skirt as the play ends...