Word: monsoon
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Squaring his phalanxes for the annual Crime-Lampy diamond monsoon this afternoon, funnymanager Georgie (Bloop-Bleep) Blimpton revealed at the twenty-third hour last night that he had signed on a two-headed goat for double duty in the infield...
...weeks, the monsoon rain drummed on the roof of the two-story European-style house which stood (significantly) between Saigon's French and native quarters. Within, tiny (4 ft. 11 in.) Dr. Nguyen Van Thinh, President of Cochin China's Provisional Government, pondered his troubles in the sticky gloom...
Even before the monsoon had started, Thinh got a shock when his French friends seemed to turn their backs on him. They had dealt directly with Viet Nam without Cochin China representation, causing Dr. Thinh's Government to lose face...
...reckoning had come for Dr. Thinh in the last days of the monsoon. At a cabinet meeting two of his ministers had resigned. Dr. Thinh had sighed apologetically: "I am terribly sorry to have led you into this adventure." Later he said: "I am being compelled to play a farce...
...monsoon was coming and the jungle air was saturated with the all-pervading damp, and with a sense of disaster. On a winding, roller-coaster trail hurried a pitiful file of refugees, fleeing from destruction, despair and defeat. At the head of the line, setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute, trudged a slight, bespectacled old man wearing a World War I campaign hat. Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules...