Word: rongerik
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...Possessions of Man. Centuries ago, guided by the light of the stars and "the feel of the waves on the boat," the forefathers of the Bikinians had pushed their graceful canoes up the length of the Marshall Islands. Now graceless LSTs bore them to Rongerik, an atoll 140 miles to southeast...
...Americans found the islanders' simple wants hard to understand. Through an interpreter, Commander Harold Grieve asked Chief Juda if timbers from Bikini's houses, for sentimental reasons, should not be transported to Rongerik. The interpreter answered: "He says, as the English would put it, 'Do you not think it would be like carrying coals to Newcastle...
...voyage from Bikini, Juda and his people ate K-rations with apparent relish. Progress chuckled over a victory. But as soon as they reached Rongerik, the islanders fell upon the coconuts and the sweet, tough pandanus fruit strewn about the beach...