51.   In a region battered over the years by earthquakes, hurricanes and conflict, the drought is a potential coup de grace.

52.   In Indonesia, normally a lush and verdant country, drought is killing crops, farmers are abandoning their land and starvation looms.

53.   In simple terms, a drought is a prolonged shortage of rain.

54.   In parts of the mid-Atlantic region, the drought is of a severity occurring only about twice in a hundred years, on average.

55.   In Texas, droughts are creeping disasters measured in months, and sometimes years.

56.   In the Hudson Valley north of New York City, the drought has been less severe than in some places.

57.   Indications are the drought is over for Hall Racing, and the optimism begins with rookie driving ace Gil de Ferran.

58.   It fell in sheets as if the two-year drought had never been.

59.   It is too soon for the Yankees to relax, but they desperately want to believe the drought is over.

60.   It takes a large volume of water to make ample amounts of snow and there has been a drought throughout the East this year.