Word: breadfruit
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Americans get a laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...