Word: drought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result was far better than any one of the surgeons had a right to expect. Director John Frankenheimer caught the drought-tautened tension of the desert town, William Shatner was terrifyingly convincing as the rabble-rousing shopkeeper bent on avenging his hurt pride, Steiger made the drunken sheriff both scruffy and appealing, as Serling intended...
...nothing to eat but cactus, and after five days my mother said she could not go on," recalled Ernesto da Silva, 17, sitting in a rocky field in the drought-burned eastern state of Pernambuco. "She was a widow but not old. She lay down by the road and told me to go. A man gave me 40? for a day's work. I bought food and hurried back to my mother, but when I got there she was dead...
...crude wooden crosses. "We are working hard," said a gravedigger in the parched town of Juàzeiro do Norte, where funerals can be bought for 4?. "We have twelve children to bury every day. It used to be one or two." Health officials estimated that in the worst drought areas half of all children under a year old would...
Though he apparently cannot stop corruption, Kubitschek has made his relief effort an all-out try. The government has appropriated $15 million and plans to add another $30 million, or a total of 5% of the budget. This will keep most of the flagelados alive until December. If the drought follows its historic pattern, the first crops will then begin to bloom; the refugees will trek back and enjoy a few fat years until the hot, dry wind starts up again...
Prices were up not only because of the big consumer demand but because livestock producers were sending fewer cattle to market. Shipments of beef cattle to the nation's dozen major stockyards last week ran 13% below last year. Output was low because the long drought in the Southwest had helped cut cattle population by almost 3,000,000 head since January...