Word: droughts
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...sends down roots as deep as 40 feet; it sucks up the earth's moisture as if it were drinking through a straw. During the great drought of the 1950s, hardly a shower fell on Tom Green County for eight years; only the mesquite lived well. Mesquite resembles an otherwise handsome tree afflicted by terrible arthritis, but it possesses a sort of peasant vitality. It is a vigorous, complacent survivor, an efficient brute of evolution, like the shark...
...century or two ago in the droppings of pack animals. This seems to be false, an effort possibly to blame the noxious plant on foreign influences (a Mexican might point out that in Texas, it was the Anglos who were the foreigners). Mesquite evidently is a native, but drought and overgrazing of the land apparently have encouraged it to spread until it has become an epidemic. Years ago, the Indians of the Southwest lived happily with the stuff. They used mesquite for fuel, shade, food (cakes made from the mesquite bean) and even diapers, fashioned from the bark...
...meet, which featured few other out standing performance, seemed an unspectacular way to end Harvard's seven year drought against the Bulldogs...
...Lisa Leithauser under-the-basket lay-up ended the drought at 3:58. And just before the buzzer sounded. Kate Martin took a full-court pass from Home and dished off a beautiful underhand assist to Mainelli, who hit a last second lay-up to send the Crimson into the locker room down by only five...
After a Dixon free throw lifted the Crimson to a 43-40 edge, Minutemen Edwin Green broke his team's scoring drought to make it 43-42 with just 27 ticks on the clock. Harvard navigated the UMass press and ran 19 seconds off the clock before the Minutemen managed to commit a foul...