Word: monsoon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
KAESONG CITY, North Korea: Still reeling from the economic losses caused by last year's ruinous floods, North Korea is once again suffering heavy monsoon rains that have inundated several key grain-producing regions, causing severe damage to farmland and killing at least 230 people. The flooding, which has caused less extensive damage in parts of South Korea, has destroyed as much as 20 percent of North Korea's annual food production. Robert Hauser, country representative of the World Food Programme in DPRK, talked to TIME after returning from Kaesong City, which is flooded by about 8 feet of water...
PLAGUE. In 1994 a long monsoon in northern India followed by 90 consecutive days of 100[degrees]F heat drove rats into the cities. In Surat, they caused an outbreak of pneumonic plague. The ensuing panic killed 63 people and ultimately cost India $2 billion...
...then there's the matter of bad timing. I don't know how many times I've walked onto campus during monsoon-like rains only to see the sprinklers happily put-puttering away. I don't know why this bothers me, but I'm comforted by the knowledge that many of my friends find it equally annoying...
Harvard couldn't seem to get the ball past midfield. Passes were missed or were intercepted, and both the offense and defensive units seemed confused. At least three goal kicks got caught by Saturday's monsoon-force winds and went out of bounds...
...climactic paintings of the early '60s, like Monastery, 1961, and Monsoon, 1961-62, abstractness prevails more, but there are still traces of figures within the cells of Monastery; a kind of prayer hum seems to emanate from its gray congested surface, suggesting collectivity through the soft friction of forms. Monsoon encases a memory of the nightmare raft trip, with a disjointed white calligraphy playing, slower than lightning, over the darkness behind it. Its movements seem just on the point of incoherence, as though an already indeterminate Cubist space had been subject to unbearable stress. But it doesn't fall apart...