Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly Hall on Pitcairn Island clanged gladly one sundown last fortnight. Through the dim light a ship had just been sighted, and the 200-odd hybrid descendants of H. M. S. Bounty's, mutineers rushed out on Adamstown's headland to strain eyes for their first visitor in over two months...
...visitor, guided by the island's blinker and its own searchlight, eased in to an anchorage. The natives swarmed aboard. On deck they had a big surprise-the smiling face of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, genuinely happy to be of assistance, only incidentally pleased to find himself hip-deep in news again...