Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your drought story reminded me of the Dust Bowl days when as a farm boy I rented shares on my uncle's land and planted soybeans three times to get something to feed eight dairy cows. As the sun was darkened by clouds of dust from the west, many of us gradually began to realize that nature and man had drifted apart. M. EARL BOYER Freeport, Illinois...
...reducing the amount of water in each flush. But the first time Bob used his, the toilet's flushing action was scarcely strong enough to swallow a wadded-up tissue--never mind more organic waste. The thing backed up so often that Bob finally tore out his environmentally correct bowl and replaced it with an outlaw model he found in a warehouse 300 miles away. "It was," says Bob, "a draining experience...
...teams in the finals," I said. "Losing is really winning if you think of it that way, not that the Sonics are necessarily going to, well, crumble. That's what I tried to tell the residents of Buffalo after the Bills kept losing the Super Bowl. 'You have one of the two top teams,' I said. 'Not to speak of Poles who've been snowed on for a while and can still feel like doing the polka. And the famous Buffalo chicken wings...
...meteorologist Ray Motha. Comparisons to the dry disasters of the 1930s strike most observers as inadequate. "We've looked at the stats back to 100 years ago," says Erik Ness, director of communications at the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, "and there was more rain during the Dust Bowl than they are getting in Roosevelt County [on the state's eastern plains...
...Dust Bowl of the 1930s prompted Congress to enact protections for afflicted farmers. Ironically, some safeguards began being phased out this year, as the 1996 drought was building. The new Freedom to Farm Act represents an attempt to wean farmers from price supports and occasional expensive supplemental federal disaster-relief bills with a system of fixed cash subsidies and low-cost, $50-per-crop insurance. Given these benefits, the reasoning went, farmers would be able to tide themselves over rough times without requiring ad hoc handouts. Almost no one thought this theory would be subjected to such a stern test...