Word: boer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...caste Aborigine, as he tries to make a success of himself in the white world of which he is nominally a member. This was a time of uneasy alliances in Australia, a time of head-on collisions between races and cultures, between Britishers and colonists, Blacks and settlers. The Boer war was beginning in Europe and Australians were caught between fighting for the Crown and supporting a Confederacy at home. Sometimes these alliances held, but more often than not they didn't. When they did it seemed more an accident of fate, and when they didn't it was never...
...their lives. Jim Albrigtsen, 30, is in almost constant pain from pus-filled lumps under his skin. Mike Ryan, 34, has recovered from a similar affliction, but his eight-year-old daughter Kerry has 18 birth defects, including missing bones in her right arm and intestinal malformations. Ronald De Boer, 31, has a healthy three-year-old daughter but doubts that he will father any more children; he has lost one testicle to cancer, which is extremely rare in a man that young...
...plot, as Scotland Yard quickly discovered, was devised by a pair of dashing rascals who had first met during the Boer War. Captain Richard Howard Gorges, a raffish cavalry hero, was drummed out of his regiment for consorting with a Malay boy, and later joined the Royal Irish Regiment. His partner was Frank Shackleton, younger brother of Sir Ernest, the South Pole explorer; Frank tried desperately to float a get-rich scheme in Mexico. Shackleton also held an honorary post in Dublin Castle, where he became a protege of Sir Arthur Vicars, fuss-budget guardian of the Hibernian sparklers. Between...