Word: droughts
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...Reagan's claim that the Soviet Union faces economic crisis and eventual collapse: The difficulties we are experiencing could arise in any state, regardless of its social system. We have had terrible rainstorms, long spells of cold weather and three years of drought. Not even the U.S. can be sure of avoiding this sort of bad luck...
...were memories of Theodore Roosevelt, whose muscular idealism enraptured the town at the turn of the century, as well as stories of men who had fought at Belleau Wood in World War I and the Bulge in World War II. And always there was talk of the weather, of drought and flood and tornado and sun. Many on this graduation day had left their tractors and corn planters bogged down in fields too wet to work-one more worry in the struggle to survive under God's laws...
...during streaks. Throughout the St. Louis Cardinals' eleven-game winning streak, Whitey Herzog's key strategy was to have Reserve Outfielder Dane lorg deliver the lineup card to the umpires. Meanwhile, Earl Weaver was tossing the Oriole clubhouse looking for his own lucky messenger to end the drought. ("Has Elrod Hendricks been out there yet?" Weaver moaned last week...
...papers are equally good at nongovernmental digging. Lucy Morgan of the St. Petersburg Times was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize this year for tracing the flow of drugs into two rural Florida counties. So was Ken Wells of the Miami Herald for reports on drought and water management. Herald Reporter Gene Miller won Pulitzers in 1967 and 1976 for exonerating individuals convicted of murder...
...father and son leased another 1,120 acres. For a few years they managed to build up some savings. But their expenses began to rise steeply in 1972, while the price they got for their cotton fell. Still, they hung on. Then, in 1980, came a disastrous drought. Dan Sr., who was back farming his original 320 acres, was able to break even. Danny, working the other 1,120 acres, lost...