Word: monsoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topped by an enormous, egg-shaped water-storage tank. Chandigarh will also have a High Court and an Assembly building, both under immense parasol roofs-huge, butterfly-shaped affairs supported by concrete columns, which will act as shields against the sun eight months of the year, umbrellas against monsoon rains for the other four...
...summer monsoon broke over leafy Luang Prabang in a deluge. Huddled in steaming rubber capes, the French Union troops waited for the expected Viet Minh Communist attack. It did not come. The valleys beneath the great frowning mountains ran rivers of mud, but no Communist soldier waded them, nor was there one to be seen anywhere. Laotians, worshiping in the temple of the celebrated Golden Buddha, had predicted that the Communists would never capture the sacred city of Luang Prabang. Had their predictions proved true...
...Monsoon (The Film Group; United Artists) is a parched little melodrama set in a torrential downpour. An about-to-be-married couple (Diana Douglas and George Nadar) arrive at the village of Ginjim in southern India to visit the girl's family. In Ginjim, the barometer is low and human passions are high. The family's younger daughter (Ursula Thiess), a child of nature who runs around in scanty outfits, takes the eye of her sister's fiancé. Before long they are cuddling in an abandoned temple, exchanging such lines as: "I will love you with...
...team of Lambert, Ernest Reiss, 32, a Swiss military aviation mechanic, and Nepalese Mountaineer Bhotia Tensing, 44, came within 150 ft. of the summit. But it turned out last week that the tenth assault on unassailable Mount Everest- the first time an attempt had been made after the monsoon rains-had ended in failure again. The climbers, despite their new, improved oxygen equipment, never got beyond the 25,850-ft.. mark, were still some 3,700 windswept feet from their goal* when they gave...
...Monsoon of the Heart. Han Suyin's A Many-Splendored Thing is frankly autobiographical. It makes uncomfortable reading because it so willfully, often tastelessly, exposes the deepest private feelings of its principals. Yet there are occasional moments of passionate feeling that almost give dignity to generally unpleasant revelations. Mark Elliott, who had merely been looking for a mistress, soon found himself swamped by a monsoon of the heart. Said he: "I had wanted something beyond the figments of reality, beyond the specious solidity of this rock-bottom world. A steady, passionate flame. A singlehearted ecstasy...