Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he was president of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association in Arizona, he used cloud-seeding, then almost untested, to increase the rainfall on the watershed above Roosevelt Dam. He believes the experiments produced 12,000 extra acre-feet of water, a welcome addition in drought-plagued Arizona...
...Folks," he told his audience, "this is a fine Harvard football team. Next week we'll follow it against Holy Cross--one of the East's top squads; and they'll be in there fighting all the way. Folks," he added, "the drought at Harvard is over...
...while one rejoices to see such public confidence in Mr. Jordan's squad, one would have to share the opinion of many who viewed Saturday's victory that the drought is, regrettably, not yet ended...
...Crimson was at the lowest ebb. In its football history when Jordan moved in. It has fashioned, respectively, one-and-eight and one-and-seven records over the last two seasons. And Jordan himself realizes that the end of the drought is not within immediate sight...
...give the story an upbeat ending that its ancient chronicler overlooked, Scripter Dunne confronts the sinful David with a rebellious populace, a drought in the land and an angry Raymond Massey, who, as Nathan the Prophet, speaks loudly and carries a big stick. All can be made well-and obviously will be-if David will return to the prayerful, God-fearing ways of his youth. While David prays, the movie unaccountably wanders off on a tangent in flashback, interrupting its climax for a blow-by-blow account of how young David slew Goliath, played by hulking...