Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is too much winter in some sections of the country, there is, strangely enough, too little elsewhere. With far less snowfall than usual, the West is suffering from a prolonged drought. A shortage of water is imperiling winter wheat and other crops; fears are growing that hydroelectric power will decrease in the spring. Water is already being rationed in parts of California (see following story). In Oregon, forest fires have broken out. "Some say the world will end in fire," wrote Robert Frost, "some say in ice." Last week Americans had their choice of disasters. If that...
...leadership, but there was no disputing the fact that Carter was moving fast and forcefully. He dramatized the crisis-and the presidential role in it -by hastily convening a Cabinet meeting, then taking a quick trip to frozen Pittsburgh. He declared eleven states disaster areas because of snow or drought, thus making them eligible for some form of federal assistance...
...which the topsy-turvy winter has created contrasting effects. New York's Marion Knox examined snow-buried Buffalo, Atlanta's Rudolph Rauch checked the frostbitten citrus groves of central Florida, and San Francisco's Joseph Boyce explored nearby Marin County as the West's disastrous drought grew even worse. Their reports...
Held scoreless for about six minutes, the Crimson looked about to crack under the pressure. But Radcliffe came back, proving its mettle with a 9 point game-ending blitz. Ellen Hart provided the points, breaking the scoreless drought by dribbling the length of the court to put home a twisting layup...
...were suspended. The state of emergency was indeed partly proclaimed because opponents would not let the Prime Minister forget that her 1971 election slogan-AN END TO POVERTY-had been turned into a mockery by the war with Pakistan, the absorption of 10 million refugees from Bangladesh, two successive drought years and the oil-price boosts...