Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet shapes up, the Elis should completely dominate the field events, with a Crimson drought predicted. In the running, on the other hand, the Crimson figures to outclass Yale completely. Whether or not the running points can offset the field events deficit is the key to the meet. If the meet should have to go down to the final relays, the Crimson should win the mile, but will have a tough time taking the two-mile. McCurdy is hoping the meet will not be that tight...
...Baby Doll doesn't deserve all the publicity but contains three brilliant performances--by Eli Wallach, Karl Malden, and baby-blond newcomer Carrol Baker. Kazan's direction is outstanding, but Tennessee Williams' contributions to the film are weak. In the suburbs. The Rainmaker involves Lancaster, Hepburn (the elder), and drought in a mildly engaging evening. It rains, after a while. At The Saxon...
...time President Eisenhower wound up his six-state, 4,500-mile tour of the drought-ravaged Southwestern and Great Plains states, his face was a windburned, cherry red; his eyes were worn from squinting through dust and sun; his once carefully polished brown shoes were flaked with windblown dust. From his brusque manner and his almost perpetual frown, aides and reporters sensed that he was thoroughly depressed by what he had seen...
Partner's Promise. Ike well knew that the current drought was generally beyond the repair of a single storm, or even a single rainy season, that the time was late for local, state and national agencies to get to work on programs that would make the most of dwindling water resources, to reseed the millions of remaining acres of Great Plains grazing land that are ready to blow. At trip's end, addressing a special drought conference at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Ike promised to ask Congress for $76 million for emergency drought relief (credit...
...schedule so strenuous that it reminded Ike-dogging Columnist Roscoe Drummond that people used to worry about the President's health. "Mr. Eisenhower," wrote Drummond wearily, "is standing this hectic drought trip better than most of the correspondents...