Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Major seed producers say that there will be sufficient resistant seed supplies for next year's crop. For this year, all that farmers can do is pray for a spell of cool drought in the corn belt. If the weather changes, says Dr. George W. Irving, head of the Agricultural Research Service, "the impact of the disease on the total crop could be slight." The next two weeks will be the crucial time...
...greater willingness to force its farmers out of the profitable business of growing poppies for opium and heroin. Natural disasters have worsened the turmoil. An earthquake this year killed 1,087 people and caused more than $100 million damage. Turkey's wheat harvest is a disaster because of drought and flooding. Says Tarik Zafer Tunaya, professor of political science at Istanbul University: "Turkey is a field on which gasoline has been poured. Watch your cigarette...
...known to ask a drama critic what qualifies him for his post. The charitable popular assumption seems to be that this chap once tacked up scenery in summer stock, or directed a college play, or was summarily reassigned from the sports section of his publication during an acute journalistic drought. The less charitable view is that the fellow is a failed playwright who plumps into his opening-night seat on the aisle palsied with envy and gurgling with bile. Percy Hammond, a formidable drama critic of vinegary wit, once gave a simpler answer: "Because I get paid...
Many old ivy plants, weakened by a severe drought, failed to survive despite special feeding and watering treatments. It may take a decade to replace the lost...
Cadet Bill Lane broke the scoring drought in the sixth when he reached first on a throwing error by third baseman Mike Thomas After Collins retired two. Pete McCall singled to right-Army's first hit of the game-to score Lane...