Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read the files of TIME's Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who has logged 15,000 miles over the past year and a half on what he describes as "a terribly depressing" assignment: covering drought and famine in Africa's sub-Sahara...
From New Delhi, the Secretary flew first to Dacca. There he conferred with Bangladesh Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman, who has expressed disappointment over the U.S.'s limited offer of food aid to his drought-stricken country...
Even the beggars of Calcutta are better off than the estimated 15 million people now starving in West Bengal. "In the Kutch district of drought-stricken Gujarat," adds Shepherd, "peasants patiently wait for dogs and vultures to finish picking at the carcasses of dead cattle. The hungry gather up the bones and sell them to mills where they are made into bone dust, a kind of fertilizer...
Running simultaneously with their struggle to preserve water in the summer drought is the two brothers' inner struggle for the same woman. Bahar (Hulya Kocygigit) loves Hassan and is even willing to forego the man's traditional dowry payment to marry him. Ossman wants Bahar, not only for his own gratification but for work in his fields. Once Hassan is in jail, Ossman forces himself on Bahar. The film moves slowly towards the brothers' inevitable face-off and an abrupt, violent denoument...
...continents, an area larger than Belgium. Over four decades, he used the rich oil and gas revenues of King Ranch's Texas spread (roughly the size of Rhode Island) to subsidize his first love, ranching, and his hobby, racing horses (among them Assault, 1946 Triple Crown winner). When drought threatened the King herds in 1917, Kleberg painstakingly began breeding Indian Brahman bulls with Texas shorthorns to produce a new and hardy breed, the Santa Gertrudis; their toughness enabled him to expand to such forbidding pastures as the Brazil ian jungle, Australia's outback and the plains of Morocco...