Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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's cash products-tea, rubber, coconuts, rice-still found a ready world market...
...kerosene and burned alive (TIME, June 16, 1958). Premier Bandaranaike now refers to the riots, largely caused by his own ineptitude, as "one of those little outbreaks." In addition to the riots, "Banda" has buoyantly survived incessant strikes, a rising cost of living, unemployment, a flight of capital, floods, drought and hysterical politics. Having survived so much, Banda has a fair chance to last out his five-year term of office, even though movie audiences hoot at his appearance in newsreels, and he has lost much of his 1956 electoral support...
...Kenya plains as touring Queen Mother Elizabeth beamed down at Narok on rows of proud, bellicose Masai warriors, resplendent in lion-skin headdresses. Touching briefly on a local morale problem, Her Majesty expressed the hope that rain would soon fall in Kenya, which had suffered a four-month drought. Hardly had she finished speaking when the rains came-so heavy that roads turned to sludge, and the Queen's car barely made it to the airstrip for her flight to Mombasa. But the Masai, water cascading off their lion skins, trudged happily homewards, more loyal than ever to their...
SHARP PRICE CUTS are coming this year for high-grade beef. Ranchers, who held back their cattle last year to build up drought-depleted herds, have boosted cattle population to alltime high 97 million, are ready to bring them to market...
...Bowditch ended the drought at the 6:20 mark with a pretty three point play, but as in the opening stanza, the Buildogs began to increase their lead until it grew to 17 points with seven minutes left...