Word: droughts
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...distressed price. The Soubeyrans' idea is simple: stop up the neighbor's spring. But the execution is grim and protracted; the plotters stand by, offering sympathy but no practical assistance as Jean descends first to exhaustion, then to madness, finally to death as he tries to fight an extended drought with the few gallons of water he can painfully haul from a ; spring that is many rugged miles away...
...Johan de Villiers, who farms 5,000 acres along the Limpopo River: "We whites are always worried about our future and our children's future. We're always avaricious. We always want more and more. The African is different. If there is a drought, he moves on. He can adapt. If they can control their breeding and we can control our avarice, there is no reason we can't somehow get together. We do the planning, they do the work...
...intended as an act of generosity. The Church World Service, a branch of the National Council of Churches, wanted to help Southern farmers still suffering from last summer's drought. So the group has shipped nearly 6 million lbs. of corn seed to about 5,000 cash-strapped farmers in eight states...
...days of the "double nickel" -- as truckers call the widely scorned and narrowly enforced 55-m.p.h. speed limit -- appear to be numbered. First enacted in 1974 in response to the oil shortage, the 55-m.p.h. law was preserved long after the energy drought turned into a glut because the lower speed saves lives as well as fuel...
...wrote the article, detailing the exploits of the Crimson golf squad of that touchstone year which had bested four other colleges to gain its fifth title in six years. The 82-year drought received some notice during Harvard's championship drive which ended with a 6-5 loss to Michigan State in the NCAA finals. The one-goal defeat seemed a cruel but inevitable part of that sorry history...