Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flood of catchy pop tunes and guitar licks. And as I headed for the Worcester Centrum last Friday, I wondered which Billy Joel would appear: the scruffy author of such classics as "Captain Jack" and "I've Loved These Days," or the polished performer of such Top 40 fodder as "Modern Woman" and "A Matter of Trust...
...goal is that when we go to tournaments, we don't play the host team," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "We're not going to be anybody's cannon-fodder. So maybe now if we can beat Nebraska, that will stop...
...America's increasingly competitive society, the bad report card -- once fodder for Norman Rockwell and Leave It to Beaver -- is no longer a laughing matter. More and more social workers, educators and police are recognizing that report-card time can trigger a torrent of emotional and physical child abuse. While no national statistics are available, experts in communities nationwide say there is a spurt in the number of children suffering brutal beatings when report cards are sent home...
...every law," he once told a crowd, "including the law of gravity." In 1968 they ran a pig for President. As a lead-up to that year's Democratic Convention in Chicago, they vowed to spike the local water supply with LSD. The schemes were mostly put-ons and fodder for the press, Hoffman's most faithful co-conspirator. It was revolution as street shtick...
...introduce Junior ROTC into predominantly nonwhite schools. "The message we are giving kids is there is no place for you in mainstream society," says Linda Farrell, a teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan. "The only place is the military, where you can be cannon fodder...