drout

There has been a big drout from the time of Jackie Kennedy until now.

Michelle Obama to arrive in Mexico Tuesday for three-day visit 2010

This was an ecological disaster of unparraleled magnitude, basically we stripped the grasslands of the great planes to grow wheat, and then when drout came to an already dry and windy region, well ...

A Good Book 2009

But the word from the brokerage community is that the masses are starting to get their feet wet again; likewise their fears are showing signs of diminishing and the expectations in some quarters are that U.S. stock mutual funds, after a recent drout, could see inflows this month of between $1.5-$3 billion.

Dan Dorfman: Another Market Crash in 2011? Dan Dorfman 2011

Yep, there was a centuries long natural drout in NM - and it wiped out the Anasazi civilization there just like a man-made one due to global warming can do to us today.

Today's Video: Like None Other - Restored Moon Images to Help Future Moon Missions - NASA Watch 2009

This was an ecological disaster of unparraleled magnitude, basically we stripped the grasslands of the great planes to grow wheat, and then when drout came to an already dry and windy region, well ...

A Good Book 2009

"I be parched wi 'drout and could swaller a gallon o' spring wutter if I hed the chance!"

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Fery sôry to dell you, esbecially after keebin you so long vaiting, bot (_thinks how he can break it most gently_) ve haf zo many beople hier to-day, and zey haf shust dold me in ze gitchen zere is no more drout.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 Various

The women who’ve been killed were probably too near mating gators one was snorkeling in a creek which is a stupid thing to do during gator mating season, and given our drout, the creatures are looking for water and so are more active than they would otherwise be.

Firedoglake » Waiting for Godot…With Tea 2006

There's grubs an 'there's greenfly, an' there's drout ', an' wet an 'cold, an' mildew, an 'there's what the soil wants and starves without, an' if you haven't got it nor yet hands an 'feet an' tools enough, how's things to feed, an 'fight an' live -- let alone bloom an 'bear? "

The Shuttle 1907

There's grubs an 'there's greenfly, an' there's drout ', an' wet an 'cold, an' mildew, an 'there's what the soil wants and starves without, an' if you haven't got it nor yet hands an 'feet an' tools enough, how's things to feed, an 'fight an' live -- let alone bloom an 'bear? "

The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886