Word: monsoonal
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...dark undersides of staircases, cattle sheds and sidewalks. Even the wide Marine Drive with its luxury apartments has its own huddle of desperate poor who have taken up residence among the mammoth concrete tetrapods scattered along the beach to protect the sea wall from the pounding waves of the monsoon...
...monsoon downpour rained on the Plain of Jars last week-and so did a barrage of Communist Pathet Lao artillery and mortar shells. In an effort to consolidate last month's ground gains on the Plain, the Reds began pinpoint artillery attacks on the last remaining Neutralist toe holds on the plateau, as well as on the headquarters of Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le at Muong Phan, just west of the Plain. Typically, the Reds blamed the U.S. for the resumption of hostilities, said that "the Americans have given orders to the reactionaries of Kong Le to attack...
India's monsoon rains drummed down on the makeshift rope-and-bamboo stadium in Madras, and Mexico's Davis Cup team wondered if they were there for tennis or water polo. "We will lose our edge," fretted Coach Pancho Contreras as the first day's matches were postponed. The wonder was that the Mexicans had any edge left at all. In a comedy of errors-or possibly gamesmanship-the Latin Americans spent the better part of a week bumping around India while their hosts acted as if they weren't even there...
...explained that no planes were flying because of the Chinese border war; eventually they provided second-class train tickets for the two-day trip. At that, Ambassador Paz angrily complained to the Indian protocol office, which put the team on a flight to Madras-just in time for the monsoon rains. "When we finally got there,'' said Coach Contreras, "the boys were afraid to eat the food, and were losing weight...
...midair. The Boun Oum man came back with the suggestion that a raft be built and anchored in midriver. With a mock-serious air, the neutralist chief delegate drew a lurid picture of the dangers that the princes would face on a raft in the midst of the monsoon-swollen torrent, where they might be swept away along with all hopes for peace. Rising to a fever pitch, he enumerated all those who would have to be with the princes-advisers, guards, servants-and the proposed raft grew to the size of Noah's Ark. When laughter had subsided...