Word: scot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronte sisters, Jane Welsh Carlyle and George Eliot, are too fair and balanced a team to want to debunk Gordon. "But a man without fault is dreadfully dull and also extremely improbable. What ... we asked ourselves, was this man really like?" He was a small, blue-eyed Scot whose charm was so great that even his enemies forgave his furious temper and Messianic pomposity. He detested formal society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would be to cut his salary. He led scratch armies to victory all the way from Nanking to Equatorial Africa...
...Murderland. Two brave British policemen volunteered to deliver the letters. They were Special Branch Superintendent Ian Henderson, 27, and his strapping blond assistant, 32-year-old Bernard Ruck. Henderson is a slim, nut-brown Scot who grew up with Kikuyu children on his father's coffee farm. He speaks Swahili, Meru, Kamba, Kikuyu, French and Afrikaans. Day after day, following China's directions, Henderson and Ruck drove into the forest, unarmed and alone. The forest had eyes, and one captured Mau Mau reported a snatch of dialogue between two Mau Mau sentinels...
...Enough." Preacher Cleland, 50. is a rugged, grizzle-headed Scot whose deep-set eyes seem to be laughing most of the time. When it is announced that he will be preaching at the Duke chapel, students, faculty members and townsfolk get there 30 minutes early. They come to hear a man who uses his high-pitched voice like a musical instrument, whose rhythm, range and change of pace are far beyond the capabilities of mine-run preachers. But even more, they come to hear a man who uses his head and heart...
...twenty-four, James Boswell was startlingly pompous. He did, of course, have one of the beat proto types in England to study and, since Boswell is over adaptable, the blame might be all laid to Dr. Johnson. In this third volume of Boswell's journals, the Scot's pomposity has increased with his growing opinion of his own abilities...
...with Navarre. There were six Gestapo men in the station looking for the spymaster. But Navarre, scenting the new wind, coolly joined a long line of ticket buyers, stood on a crowded platform reading a newspaper, then joined a crowd leaving a train, and got out of the station, scot-free. Once he was saved from capture when a prolonged session in a dentist's office made him 15 minutes late for a rendezvous which the Gestapo had learned about. "Dentists," he later said wryly, "have their uses in this world...