Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farm. Oil's hopeful outlook was shared to an even greater degree by the farm-machinery industry, which started earlier on its recession and now seems to be coming out of it. With an end to the Midwest drought, and higher farm prices (see Agriculture), farmers were buying so much farm machinery that some companies are hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Massey-Ferguson. Ltd. sold more new combines and tractors between Nov. 1 and March 1 than at any other time in the past five years. Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. is well ahead of 1957, while...
...stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile do to you if your mind is clear and your conscience is untroubled?"). When a drought parches the countryside, Raju inadvertently agrees to fast till the rains come. He caches food in the corners of the temple, but the round-the-clock ministrations of his disciples prevent him from eating it. At this point Raju realizes that he is not man enough to be a saint...
...After his confession, Raju expects the villagers to renounce him. But they disbelieve him-or are wise enough to know that he is not the same man he was. Their faith forces Raju to acquire the virtues he has mimicked. He fasts to the death and knows that the drought is over, that "it's raining in the hills." The Guide floats as gently as a lily pad on the surface of Indian life and yet suggests the depths beneath. It manages to describe a saint who is neither born nor made but simply happens, almost like the weather...
...Caesar Invites You: Reunited with Imogene Coca for the first time in 3½ years, and ending his own seven-month layoff, a tense, thinner (by 26 lbs.) Caesar had an off night by the standards of the funniest man in television. Yet even drizzle is welcome in a drought. Into his new half-hour show on ABC, Caesar crammed two sketches: one, too long, cast him and Imogene as a pair of chronic not-marrieds who were flung at each other by well-meaning friends; the other, too short, was a spoof on the current rash of TV shows...
...looks as though the long drought is over for Crimson wrestling. The third consecutive strong freshman team should almost complete the task of changing Harvard wrestling squads from patsy to powerhouse...