Word: monsoon
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...port, and ships are standing offshore with more, waiting for berths. Rangoon's ordinary shipping trade has all but halted, and demurrage charges are mounting at the rate of $4,200 a day. Soon harbor authorities will face an even worse problem. With the beginning of the monsoon season, the steady downpour of rain will wet much of the uncovered cement and convert it into solid mass...
Under cover of a heavy monsoon downpour, 150 terrorists crept up to the barbed wire surrounding the jungle village of Kea in central Malaya, cut through the wire and attacked with machine guns. Quickly subduing the police, they forced the Home Guard commander to deliver up Kea's 35-gun armory, then looted the village of all transportable food. Just as they were about to leave, they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After...
...field Saturday, so covered with mud that his big number 63 was almost illegible. "It feels great," he said simply, "to beat Princeton." It was even great enough to keep the Crimson rooters in their seats almost to a man throughout the worst downpour of the current monsoon...
...monsoon/ If things get any worse, we'll be fishes soon" gurgled Eliot Hall last night, to win Radcliffe's annual Song-Fest. The contest was originally scheduled for the Quad, but Eliot prognosticators had the only slickers and umbrellas in the crowd, so it was moved into Cabot...
Across eastern India and Pakistan, monsoon rains swept in mighty torrents between the Himalayas and the sea. In the heart of the populous Ganges valley, 10,000 villages crumbled and vanished, and farmers shared tree trunks with cobras in the worst floods since 1871. In the coastal state of Orissa, eight rivers thundered simultaneously into spate, killing at least 150, inundating 3,500 sq. mi. of drought-seared cropland. The state's 138 legislators dropped everything and rushed homeward to find out their families' fate...