Word: monsoonal
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...eleven years since it won independence from Britain, Ceylon has had a cautious, conservative government and a wild-eyed Socialist one. Last week, in the third year of the Socialist administration of frail, fidgety Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 60, Ceylon sweltered in the pre-monsoon heat. In the capital city of Colombo, the stores were packed with luxury goods, the streets jammed with cars, the sidewalks filled with smiling people and saffron-robed Buddhist monks under black umbrellas. In the lush countryside there were signs of the paralyzing drought that had lasted for months. But the island...
Satyajit Ray also turns his rented camera on pastoral symbolism, but it seems unconscious symbolism--a tribute to his art. Water flies darting on a pond, water lilies lifting wildly in a sudden gale, warm monsoon rain spattering on the attractive face of young Durga--these are scenes of compelling subtlety and beauty...
...Bombay, where $1,500 worth of lighting equipment was light-fingered away, continued apace when the New Delhi arrival of Old Betsy, Holiday's 20-ton icemaking compressor, was delayed ten days by a flood. Manager Carl Snyder found the stadium grounds awash in mud, although the monsoon was well over; municipal engineers eventually located a broken water main, while elegant opening-nighters tippy-toed to their seats on temporary wooden planking...
Estimates are that Quemoy can hold out past Christmas unless the Reds drastically step up their bombardment. Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, declared last week that with the start of the monsoon season, the Reds have missed any chance to invade Quemoy this year. But the monsoon also hampers the effort to supply the island. And to the weary, frustrated defenders of Quemoy, even the arrival of all the alligators, oil drums, food cases and medicine packages in the Far East would not be a completely effective answer to the relentless fire from...
...belief it would ward off sunstroke. In Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard-hit northern tier states. Rain fell so hard in Bombay that five people drowned in a single day in the flooded streets...