Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champions for the past two years, just haven't been able to score at key moments this season. Harvard's attack gained needed confidence with Monday's 16-2 win over Holy Cross. Until the massacre of the Crusaders, the Crimson offense was experiencing its mid-seasonal drought...
...level of the best U.S. colleges. The number of courses was raised from 40 to 200; the proportion of civilian teachers was pushed up to 51%. In the fall of 1963, it became apparent that under toughened standards flunkouts would almost triple. Academic Dean A. Bernard Drought, who came to Annapolis from Marquette, instituted what he thought would be a temporary flunk quota to keep the midshipmen afloat...
...speed of 23 m.p.h. and a lefthanded slap shot that is quicker (118 m.p.h.) than Sandy Koufax's fastball. By early this month he had used all three to easily tie the N.H.L.'s season record of 50 goals scored-but then the drought...
...million idled acres on U.S. farms as may be needed to meet the world's need for food-"but not to produce unwanted surpluses and not to supplant the efforts of other countries to develop their own agricultural economies." In addition, to meet "unprecedented demands arising out of drought and the war in Asia," Johnson announced a 10% increase in rice acreage in 1966, and said that corn-belt farmers would be encouraged to switch some feed-grain acreage to soybeans, a high-protein oilseed of which the U.S. has virtually no reserve stocks...
...prairie states, or even in a city like Los Angeles where the limitations of nature have been brushed aside. These shortages are expected. The present problem concerns the Northeast, where water was apparently as abundant as the concentrated masses who live there. Now, after four seasons of chronic drought, New Yorkers, and to some extent New Englanders, have become as water-conscious as Arizonians. That such a situation should have arisen is, of course, alarming; that such a situation should continue in the future shows a lack of public concern...