Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians apparently need wheat to make up for crop shortages, both in the Ukraine, suffering from scorching drought, and in Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious "virgin-lands" development scheme in Soviet Asia. Canadian Agriculture Minister Harry Hays returned from an 18-day trip behind the Iron Curtain to report that Russians insistently asked what Canadians did about drought and dust. On his recent Russian journey, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman went through the Ukraine but was permitted to travel only to the fringe of the virgin-lands...
...real soccer countries such as Spain and Brazil, championship games draw six-figure crowds. But when a mere 15,231 fans showed up at a Manhattan stadium last week to watch two of Europe's best teams compete for the American Challenge Cup, William Drought Cox, president of the International Soccer League, beamed with delight at the turnout. That is a big soccer crowd in the U.S.-big enough to make soccer...
...jokester did not call Gordon again for nearly a year. By then, Tulsa was thoroughly parched by the drought that has afflicted much of the Midwest and West this year. In June and again in early July, the man telephoned Gordon and promised to make it rain. Both times Gordon listed the agreed-upon dates in his column, and both times, contrary to Weather Bureau predictions, rain fell within 72 hours...
What Bryher eventually brings into view, however, is the enduring landscape along the fringes of a wasting war of occupation. Hannibal's army lives off the Italian countryside for decades at a stretch, until the danger from the war is as familiar a part of peasant life as drought or plague. The Italian villagers are loyal to Rome when the legions can defend them, comfortably acquiescent when the Carthaginians ride into town and offer better prices. To the fearful peasantry, Hannibal's few armored elephants loom dreadfully, like the roaming German Tiger Tanks of World...
Officially, the power company (known in Rio simply as "The Light") blames the rationing on a generator breakdown and a prolonged drought affecting hydroelectric reservoirs. But a Light executive privately concedes: "Even if the drought hadn't come, Rio would have had power rationing this month." Rio's power demands have been growing at an average of 8.3% per year, and the Light's capacity now falls 100,000 kw. short of peak-hour demands. Relief is not expected until the federal government's Furnas Dam project, with 600,000 kw. of installed capacity, goes into...