Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Officials ignored early evidence-including explicit and repeated warnings starting as early as February from a U.S. agriculture attaché in Moscow -that a frost-and drought-stricken harvest in 1972 would force the Soviets to make massive purchases of U.S. grain...
...prince), is forbidden to hold public office. Last week he announced that he would reserve for himself the posts of President, Prime Minister, Defense and Foreign Minister. He will need to muster all the support he can to solve Afghanistan's many problems, which include a three-year drought that has claimed more than 20,000 lives. The country is noted for its harsh landscape (barren deserts interspersed with rugged mountains), wretched poverty (per capita annual income is $88), and widespread disease (half of all children die before the age of five). Kabul is also something of a hash...
Unusual snows in South Carolina and Georgia last winter. A particularly late frost in California this March. The worst flood in the Mississippi basin since 1937. Abroad, the worst drought in India in 20 years. A landscape of dehydrated livestock carcasses dotting the dry beds of rivers in Africa. An absence of monsoons that ruined the rice crop in Southeast Asia...
...Starving. The picture is bleaker in the Indian and African drought areas, where peasants are absorbing the blow almost full force. Soaring prices do them little good because they have no crops or livestock to sell...
This year India may have to import as many as 6,000,000 tons of wheat. A drought has forced the closing of some Indian factories and the cutting of hydroelectric power to others. Losses are estimated in the billions of dollars...