Word: monsoonal
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...other fact was indicated: although the monsoon, due in several weeks, will restrict major operations, Stilwell's fight for a land route to China will...
...boys in the breakfast line; despite the trial on the entry duty officers, and despite the necessity of foregoing the obvious pleasure of taking our deepknee bends before dawn with the midshipmen, we've spent a fortunate week in the sack-hitting regard. And to make it better, the monsoon season is overdue...
...decisive battle is enough to settle most campaigns. But last week, with the monsoon due to write finis in May, the Burma campaign of 1943-44 was winding up with two decisive battles under way at once...
...Delhi wag suggested: "It looks like a swap. The Japanese will get India and the Allies will get Burma." But even if Stilwell should be cut off by the Japanese thrust at Imphal, it might be possible to supply him by air, although with great difficulty during the monsoon. Much worse would be the very serious reduction, if not elimination, of supplies for China over the Hump...
...Burma frontier has almost never before known such weather at this season of the year. With the monsoon not due for at least a month, high winds and tropical downpours, some of them lasting five days at a time, have pelted the area repeatedly in recent weeks. *Strikingly beautiful Mrs. Wingate, reported to be expecting a child shortly, first saw Wingate at the rail of a liner when she was 15 and he 30, introduced herself by saying, "You're the man I'm going to marry." Answered Wingate: "You are right. When?" Two years later she wrote...