Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ownership and an abundance of sweet water from deep wells coaxed from the arid land the best tomatoes in all of Almeria province. Since the bombs fell, the tomato crops have failed six successive times. Palomarenos blame radioactivity, but the failure may well be due to other causes. Drought has turned Palomares' water brackish. and the plowing three years ago apparently brought old salt deposits to the surface...
...Operation Drought," reads the sign on the Pan American Highway 55 miles northeast of Santiago, the capital of Chile. Soldiers have built a tent city there, and government technicians are drilling deep wells in search of water. A few miles up the road, schoolboys play soccer in the dried-out bed of the Aconcagua, normally a mighty river. Even farther to the north, water from the near-dry Recoleta Dam is rationed-four days running, ten days shut...
Chile is gripped by the worst, longest drought in its history, a crisis so serious that President Eduardo Frei has declared it a "national catastrophe." The drought, now in its 20th month, followed three years of earthquakes, floods and destructive storms. The harried Frei has seen his drive for progress stalled by natural disaster after disaster, as well as by stubborn political opposition and splits in his ruling Christian Democrat Party. Says he: "The drought is worse than an earthquake. An earthquake produces panic, but reconstruction means work. A drought does not produce panic, but neither does it provide work...
Center forward Peter Bogovich, playing with an injured knee, ended a personal two game drought by tallying Harvard's only goal at 5:10 of the first period. Penetrating the Yale defense, Bogovich uncorked a hard shot at the Eli net which deflected off the hand of Yale halfback Jim McGuire. Bogovich was awarded a free penalty shot, which he converted to give the Crimson an early lead...
...JOURNAL. "Freedom and Famine." A searching examination of India's attempt to function as a democracy, and how difficult that can be in places like the state of Bihar, ridden with drought and disease...