Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cannon Fodder...
...five soldiers leap over the closed trolley doors and pile into a departing car which, by coincidence, carries the Honorable Strom Thurmond (R-S. C.). "Let me introduce our motley crew," Redden says quickly, reaching over the glass divider. "We're what you might call cannon fodder. We're the ones you send to get shot up over there, and they say you're a hot, so why don't you do something about getting this war ended...
...Italy into a concrete wilderness. "There is not the slightest evidence of conscience or concern for the future," complains Conservationist Antonio Cederna. "Every protest suffocates against the mattress of political inertia." A spokesman for the powerful Farmers Union warns that unchecked water pollution has cut the production of fodder by 60% and increased mortality among cattle. Though industry is hardly the sole culprit in polluting Italy's waterways, he says, "it is necessary that certain industries stop acting like the cat who hides its own dirt with its paws...
...flaunted his strategy time and again: under the guise of Vietnamization, he will sanitize the war by withdrawing American troops and reducing American casualties, while turning the people of Indochina-all of them-into cannon fodder, forcing them to hunt and kill each other beneath a hail of American bombs...
...centuries we've been breeding meat animals toward faster growth and earlier maturity. There are great benefits for a protein-hungry world, but we're creating freaks that have very low natural tolerance to disease and infection, and the fodder crops won't sustain them," Whittaker added...