Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...severe drought in the past two years has made the situation even worse...
...barbs. At a session with journalists toward the end of the week, Carter encountered a long delay getting a gin-and-tonic for himself. "No authority around here," somebody muttered. Earlier, Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine had told a story about a preacher offering an eloquent sermon during a drought. The congregation congratulated him, but one remarked: "A little rain would do us a hell of a lot more good." Muskie's point: the nation needs action rather than just speeches...
...principal cause of this cultural drought is a severe deprivation of funds. Boston's performing groups, like the nation's, continue to proliferate at a time when public and foundation grants are drying up. In Massachusetts last year, close to 350 recipients got a share of the state art council's $2.5 million budget, with the highest gift, a mere $45,000, going to the B.S.O. This year there are 264 requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget...
...horses, from Sir Barton in 1919 to Citation in 1948, had earned the right to have their names engraved on the emblem of the Triple Crown of American racing. After Citation, 25 long years passed before Secretariat added another name to that most select circle, and through the long drought, one question bedeviled breeders, owners, trainers and bettors alike: Why were there no Triple Crown champions...
Americans are a people capable of extraordinary ingenuity and unexpected self-discipline when they come up hard against something they see as a real emergency. When California's Marin County was confronted with a drought two years ago, for example, residents shared the burden of sacrifice with remarkable success, revising their life-styles to accommodate the need. But Americans are also a breathtakingly forgetful people who are simply not moved to change their lives very much in consideration of the long range...