Word: monsoon
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British and Indian troops were in slow, steady retreat last week before the jujitsu jabs of the Japs, who infiltrated their positions and threatened to cut their thin communication line. The British would probably be lucky if they could withdraw intact to India before the imminent season of monsoon, malaria...
...about six weeks the rainy prelude to the summer monsoon, which hits Burma in mid-June, will begin along the coast. It is unlikely that the British can clean up the area now and gain the comparatively dry central sector before the Burmese jungles are turned into a pesthole of mud and malaria. Not until some time in October does the monsoon end. Not until then could the Allies launch a major offensive to reopen the Burma route to famished China...
...Ordinary. The world that has been carrying its burden of war around the sun has carried also the daily routines of the old and ordinary life of these plain people. Before the furnace heat of the Indian spring, in this pre-monsoon season, the 110,000,000 Indian farmers wait in their countless villages for the southwest wind to bring the rains of June. One-sixth of the earth's people, with their 225 languages, their 2,300 castes and 39 provinces, are living through their ancient order of life, not touching the 44,000,000 untouchables, not harming...
...rupees-For tropical shorts, shirts, and a monsoon raincoat. This island is only 8 degrees from the equator. The day I landed I almost passed out in my winter army uniform...
...they've been expecting air raids, they built up a solid wall around it-and now it's like the inside of a tomb. There were two baths for my entire floor, and I had to keep my windows shut because otherwise the full blast of the monsoon slugged the black raindrops all over the room...