Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concern is only with the relations of prey and predator. As a rule, if an animal advertises its presence, it is a good bet that a predator wouldn't want it anyway. Birds and fishes are likely to mistake inanimate objects for the insects on which they feed, so they can easily mistake an unpalatable insect for a tasty one-unless the former distinguishes himself by loud red, orange or yellow markings (although some other palatable animals adopt conspicuous markings in order to resemble unpalatable or poisonous varieties). Studies of 200 kinds of insects eaten by U.S. birds show...
...There is an acute food, feed and fuel shortage. Due to the slaughter of poultry, egg production this winter will be only one-third of last winter's. Wrote a farmer: "On many farms cows are too weak to rise and have to be lifted up." > Although the Nazis promised noninterference in Danish affairs, the Danish telephone exchanges, the railways and the police are controlled by the Gestapo...
...this meant: 1) that the U.S. in this year of war would have a bumper wheat crop to help feed hungry Britain; 2) that Dust-Bowl farmers would have money in their pockets to carry them through another dry spell; 3) that pessimists who thought the West's marginal wheatlands should be given back to the desert had reckoned without the whim of changing weather...
...believed profoundly and fanatically inthe idea of Socialism. Now these people have mostly fallen under the axes of various purges, and most Russians work because they are threatened with criminal proceedings if they refuse to work. All this produces a situation where any foreign invader who is able to feed the people at least as well as the Bolsheviks-not a high standard-and give them a few simple consumer goods, will be able to run the country without serious political difficulties...
...strictly against the rules to feed a race horse little white pills to give it more pep. In baseball, not so. Last spring Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals began dosing his players with vitamin B1 pills. Last week, as the baseball season neared its eighth week, the hopped-up Redbirds were going lickety-split in the National League pennant race...