Word: saad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantasy is the diplomatic struggle for possession of Abu Saad, an island in the Persian Gulf which contains the only known deposits of some perilous stuff, wanted by every peace-loving nation because it makes possible the world's fastest rocket airplanes. Britain has the concession; Britain's Cabinet (the only ones in the know) feel even guiltier because of the further fact that the same stuff can -be made up into the world's most destructive atomic bomb. At the centre of the ensuing pussy-wants-a-corner is Walter Bullinger, Britain's Secretary...
...Saad crisis grows hourly more acute. more complicated; then it seems to simplify itself into inevitable war. Walter Bullinger does his mild best but it is not good enough. If bright young Jane Campbell, his assistant, and not-quite-so-bright John Shorland had not spoken out of turn, threatened to give the world hell, there would have been hell...
...Saad was called "the son of the bitch" for the simple reason that his mother had been a Christian, captured by the tribe on one of their forays against those dogs. As his father was an able warrior, Saad was only half-handicapped. But Saad's spirit was proud, and he resented fiercely his anomalous position. When his tribe meditated a raid against the fat town of Kasir, Saad was sent ahead as a spy to do what he could when his elders and betters stormed the place...
...Saad did better than well. Disguised as a peddler, cunningly he insinuated himself into the house of Kasir's chief citizen. But when he met the eyes of Evanthia, daughter of the house, he had need of all his Arab cunning. When the household was asleep and Saad's duty was to escape to the city walls, not Evanthia but Evanthia's mother lured him to her room. Honor and duty both satisfied. Saad played an Arab hero's part in the ensuing pillage. Somehow Evanthia escaped him, but back in the pleasant pasture-lands her image gave...