Word: monsoonal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sleeping out of doors on lawns and rooftops, sweltering millions pinned their hopes on the coming of the annual summer monsoon. But they sniffed the night air vainly for signs of relief. The monsoon, which had been expected to spread its cooling rains over the north by mid-June, chose perversely to settle far to the east over Assam, and so far has refused to budge...
...make matters worse, Delhi cables a command: get the boy to Kalapur, and get him there fast. But 300 miles of rebel-infested territory lie between the fort and Kalapur, and in crossing it a rescue party would stand about as much chance as a moth in a monsoon-unless, of course, the party is accompanied by an ingenious scriptwriter (Robin Estridge) with a trunk full of assorted jaws of death, nicks of time, hair's breadths, fell swoops, stiff upper lips, white man's burdens and whys not to reason...