Word: drought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first game was mild. Jim Dooley, Dartmouth right-hander, extended the Varsity's batting drought with a three-hit performance while his teammates rang up single tallies off Brendon Reilly in the first, third, and fourth frames. Relief pitcher Ira Godin was touched for the visitors' final two runs in the sixth...
...never rains but it pours, Harvard's Varsity lacroose team learned Saturday afternoon when, after a three game drought in which it scored only five points, it let loose an eighteen point cloudburst in defeating Tufts 18 to 3 at Medford. At the same time the Freshmen lost a 10 to 3 decision to a well-conditioned Andover team on the schoolboy's home grounds...
...farmers who strained their backs to raise wartime bumper crops when help was scarce went on to bigger & better yields when the help came back. In 1946, crop production broke all records, topping the wartime 1942 peak by 2%, and soaring 26% over the 1923-32 (pre-drought) average...
...Chute. Spain's economy is sliding inevitably down the chute to bankruptcy. Since 1936 Spain has had little new machinery. Its railroads are 50 to 20 years out of date and seriously inadequate. The three years' drought has ended and reservoirs are full, but Madrid still has no electricity three days a week for lack of efficient dynamos...
...llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...