Word: monsoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twilight at Dienbienphu. Narrow-eyed with loss of sleep, the French sentries peered through the monsoon haze towards the Communist trenches less than roo yards away. All was quiet, and the tired 10,000-man garrison hoped for a fair night's rest. At GHQ in Hanoi, an officer reported: "Lull at Dienbienphu...
...squally monsoon weather, India's Prime Minister Nehru flew south last week to Ceylon. The occasion: the first conference of South Asian Prime Ministers. Nehru's purpose: to get a South Asian vote of confidence for three of his pet projects. They were: i) an immediate cease-fire in Indo-China; 2) indefinite suspension of H-bomb tests; 3) a vote of censure against "colonialism." Nehru expected some opposition at Colombo from Pakistan's young (45), pro-American Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. But he counted on support from Burma's Thakin Nu, Indonesia...
...Hollywood studio commissary, making luncheon talk, Cinemactor Robert (Knights of the Round Table) Taylor, 42, divorced in 1951 from Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck, announced that he would marry the beautiful lady at the same table, German Cinemactress Ursula (Monsoon) Thiess, 29. Ursula was photographed looking properly demure before Taylor slipped an outsize diamond sunburst engagement ring on her finger...
...mortarmen had perhaps the most concentrated target in all Indo-China: the French perimeter was only 2,000 yards wide. The French artillery was ineffective by comparison: it had lost about half of its guns. The surviving French tanks were bogged down in the muck of the early monsoon, and French tactical air was often blinded in the haze. And there was the anguish of the wounded, who could not be flown out due to Red interdiction and part-capture of the airstrip. Wrote Charles Favrel from Indo-China to Paris' influential and neutralist Le Monde...
...stop the varsity tennis team Saturday when it took to the indoor courts in the West Point hockey rink and trounced the Cadets, 7 to 2. Originally scheduled to play a 15-point outdoor match, the Crimson settled for the regulation six singles and three doubles inside after the monsoon...