Word: monsoon
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...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...
...French GHQ: "This is Mme. de Castries calling Dienbienphu. Is that you, darling?" In the fortress command post 175 miles away, Colonel de Castries came to the set. Asked Mme. de Castries: "Are you all right, Christian?" Said the colonel: "Never better." Mme. de Castries warned of the coming monsoon: "I hope your raincoat has not been destroyed." The colonel later messaged his wife for razor blades and shaving cream. "He is extremely confident," Mme. de Castries told a London Daily Express reporter. "I know he'll be safe...
...Burke's own reckoning, his most memorable assignment in India was his 1951 pursuit of a monsoon. New York wanted a photograph of a violent Asiatic downpour. Unfortunately, it was the driest season in a quarter of a century, and with New Delhi wrapped in a drought, Burke pushed on to the Khasi Hills at Cherrapunji. reputed to have the world's heaviest rainfalls. The moment he arrived, the rains ceased. Just after he left, 30 inches fell. As a final blow, he was arrested for taking surreptitious pictures of a perfect formation of monsoon clouds from...
...chronically in need of rain, and Bowen is sure that cloud-seeding can increase the precipitation of this area by a critical 50%. In northern Australia, the important thing is to make the rain come at the right time. This can be done, Bowen thinks, by seeding the yearly monsoon clouds, which often build up for weeks before rain begins to fall...
...years, perhaps longer-before something resembling victory comes in Indo-China, the general and his team have already given a taste of some of its potentialities. With a crisp stream of orders for reconnaissance, forays, ambush raids and harassing attacks, Navarre this summer broke the usual pattern of the monsoon, when the French in the past stopped fighting in order to build up supplies and strengthen their outposts, and the Reds sortied into villages to terrorize, recruit men and collect the rice on which they live...