Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bare, beaten region more than twice the size of Texas, 26 million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought and ravaged by flood and yields one-fourth as much corn, one-fifth as much cotton as the average acre of U.S. farmland. "Our agriculture," said Ceará State Governor Virgílio Távora, "is just a bit more advanced than that of the Pharaohs...
...economist and career diplomat, Hoveida also served briefly as chairman of the National Iranian Oil Co. He will probably need all his financial experience; despite mounting oil revenues, Iran faces a growing fiscal squeeze aggravated by the high cost of public works and industrialization projects, last year's drought and declining U.S. aid. New Premier Hoveida took up his complex tasks with the promise that "except for the sad absence of Mansur, nothing is changed: the same men will carry on the same programs...
...partial understanding of Johnson, one has to go back to the harsh hill country of west-central Texas where he was born in 1908. Historian Walter Prescott Webb describes it as a land of "nauseating loneliness," whose inhabitants were "far from markets, burned by drought, beaten by hail, withered by hot winds, frozen by blizzards, eaten out by grasshoppers, exploited by capitalists and cozened by politicians...
...very distant future, the chemists expect to produce clothes that last a lifetime, auto oil that never needs to be changed, paints that never chip or wear, fertilizer that stays potent for several years. Their labs are already at work on chemicals that enable crops to resist frost and drought, preservatives that keep food fresh for years without chilling, plastics tougher than steel, atomic automobiles, pills that prevent all infectious diseases and other pills that hold back old age by slowing the degenerative processes of the human body...
According to top China experts, Peking can afford to spend a maximum of $500 million a year on all phases of its nuclear program - unless drought or floods force it to spend hard currency to buy food. At this rate, it might take China between five and ten years to produce 30 bombs small enough to be lifted by an airplane or missile. But China has no long-range bombers or missiles, and to create the air fleet that would deliver the bombs would take $10 billion to $20 billion and between 15 and 20 years-unless outside help comes...