Word: droughts
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Capitalizing on Harvard's offensive drought, Notre Dame cranked up the intensity and pulled away in the final frame. Goals from O'Shaughnessy, Kassen Delano, Kelly McCardell and Alissa Moser distanced the Irish from the Crimson as the game wore down to a close...
Civil war, drought, famine, invasion and tyranny have been tramping back and forth across the weary soil of this miserable nation for so long that the prospects of its recovery, even if the Taliban were to vanish tomorrow, are distant at best. And now the Taliban have outraged world opinion with yet another bizarre and fanatic provocation. The leading Taliban mullah, Mohammed Omar, declared that since the Koran forbade the worship of idols, all idols in the country (meaning, for the most part, Buddhist sculpture made before the arrival of the Muslims in the 8th century) were to be destroyed...
Although the Ivy League recognized Pettit today, the freshman phenom's chief contributions came in critical non-Ivy ECAC games where he made the most of increased ice-time to help pull the slumping Crimson out of its scoring drought...
...Meanwhile, aid workers say over a million Afghans are now at risk of starvation caused by years of war, drought and their government's ineptitude. To many, losing a part of their heritage in Bamiyan?and at the other Buddhist sites in Jalalabad, Ghazni and Kandahar?is only one of many tragedies inflicted on them by 20 years of ceaseless turmoil...
...wispy beard, had debated with his elders for many weeks, while the famine--the worst in 30 years--tightened its grip on the village. Would they stand a better chance of survival if they remained? Or should they wander elsewhere until they found help? After a three-year drought, every village well had run dry, and the goats and sheep had died. Finally Hawaneen decided it was time to go; he had fed his family the last grains of wheat he had intended to plant this spring if the rains ever came. Besides, word had reached his village in Badgis...