Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valley is blocked by snow ten months of the year. Ress traveled there in a Jeep over a goat path, across creaky wooden bridges-in the midst of a rainstorm. If anything could dry up one's ardor for work, it might be covering a drought in India. New Delhi Correspondent William Stewart journeyed 1,000 miles to remote Andhra Pradesh, spent a day in near-100° heat talking to farmers, and most of the night writing. For his troubles, he contracted dysentery -then learned that publication of the story had been postponed...
...caused by a combination of Russia's capricious climate and the country's inefficient system of production and distribution. In 1971-72, European Russia was bedeviled by a freak winter, when little snow fell to insulate seeds against record spells of frost. This was followed by a drought during the hottest summer of the century. The resulting crop damage and late harvest taxed the Soviets' inadequate technology to the breaking point. Trucks, harvesting machinery, railroad cars, granaries and manpower all seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...afternoon, in the makeup game, it was the Reds who provided the ninth-inning histrionics. With the score tied 4-4, Rose singled Geronimo home from second to keep the Reds' series hopes alive. At week's end, back on their home ground, the Reds ended their drought. Led by Bench, who hit his first home run (and thus notched his first RBI) of the series, Cincinnati batters peppered four Oakland pitchers for ten hits in an 8-1 win, tying the Series at three games apiece and setting up Sunday's dramatic showdown...
...Canada, France and New York, addicts are shuddering through the third month of a major heroin drought. In Montreal, a major port of entry for French heroin, one dealer complained last week that "the stuff is scarce as hell. I can pay but my man can't deliver." In Marseille, the price of a kilo of heroin has risen in past weeks from $2,500 to $5,000, partly as a result of the shortage, partly because the heat...
...promises lower retail prices for steak and hamburger by September. But beef on the hoof could well rise again soon after that, pushing prices at the supermarket counters up further by Thanksgiving. Many ranchers who rushed their cattle to feed lots prematurely because of high prices and a drought that dried up grazing land are now rebuilding their herds. Such expansion initially reduces cattle supplies and drives up prices because heifers, which make up half of the calf crop, are held back for breeding purposes...