Word: breadfruit
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...spied the attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis, planter, to murder...
...rain, there was so much moisture in the air that clothes became soaking wet in ten minutes. More pleasant were the native feasts which lasted from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. A sample menu: crabs, lobsters, centipedes, octopus, green turtle, bonito, albacore, roast pig, chicken, duck, breadfruit, bananas, mummy apples, yams, coconut milk...
...anxious, inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte planed down toward a thorny strip of land guarding a lagoon on the isle of Molokai* in the Hawaiian group. Bushes ripped their ship as it crashed down through a breadfruit tree. But their gasoline had lasted just long enough. They were out of the fog. They were safe...
...kindly breadfruit grows...
...very large. She was huge in every sense, weighing much more than three hundred pounds and yet there was a singular grace in her form and her movements. Her limbs we of the girth of breadfruit-trees, and her bosom was as broad and deep as that of the great June of Rome, but her hands were beautiful, like a plump baby's with fascinating creases at the wrists, and long, tapering fingers. Her limbs eyes were hazel, and they were very brilliant when she was merry or excited. Her expansive face had no lines in it, and her mouth...