Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech, and in time-tried Communist dialectic, somehow managed to claim that the U.S. was interfering with Yugoslavia's affairs by withholding the wheat. For Tito, such abuse had its benefits: last week the State Department agreed to ship Tito the wheat he needs for his drought-starved land...
...Junkpile. The Communists had boasted of their conquest of flood and drought. But last year in central China, there was no rain for 200 days in a row. In North China, the Yellow River dried up so completely that a car could be driven on its bed, but in Manchuria rampaging rivers drowned coal mines and steel mills in Anshan and Mukden. Yet bad weather, which Li Fu-chun and Peking's other leaders used as an excuse, was far from the whole explanation of China's woes. Formosa, Hong Kong and China's Kwangtung province have...
...believe, as I have stated frequently, that leaders are responsible for their failures only in the governing sector and cannot be held responsible for the failure of a nation as a whole ... In 1930 and 1931 we blamed all the evils that this country was then suffering, from the drought to the World Depression, on Herbert Hoover. If we had continued to hold those beliefs, we would never have learned anything from that experience. We would have dismissed it as being a question of leadership, and would have done nothing to prevent such an experience from happening again . . . Democracy...
...plastics for models in their still lifes. Texas housemaids dust the flowers weekly instead of changing the water daily. On the West Coast, green-thumbed weekend gardeners have been known to hoodwink their neighbors with lavish beds of plastic tulips. Tired of watching their natural flowers succumb to blight, drought or neighborhood dogs, many Detroiters have replaced them with artificial blooms to eliminate bare spots in their landscaping. One suburban Dallasite mixed a real and an imitation wisteria vine. "In the summer you can't tell one from the other," he says, "but it causes some questions...
...plains. But this year the high-pressure area stuck stubbornly over the Rockies during June and the first half of July. The dry, sunny weather that it brought dried out and heated the earth's surface, and hot air rising upward intensified the high-pressure area and its drought-producing effects. The moist winds from the Gulf were deflected to the Eastern seaboard...