Word: pandanus
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Under Bikini's palm and pandanus trees, bright in the South Sea sun and dark in the shadow of the Bomb, primitive man and progressive man held palaver. The U.S. Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald. Bikini's tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven...
They brought with them only a few possessions: some pandanus leaves to thatch their new houses; their vernacular Bibles, Congregational Hymnals and Mother Hubbards which had been left them by Yankee missionaries, and latent syphilis left by Yankee whalers of the pre-atomic...
They had been philosophically submissive during two years of Jap rule, had suffered nothing worse than occasional hunger when the conqueror took their babai (taro), pigs, chickens and catches of fish, and reduced them to sucking pandanus fruit and coconut milk. Now, back under the eye of British colonial officers (TIME, Dec. 13), some volunteered for labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced...