Word: fodder
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...conventional standards, such exhaust-pipe theatrics should have been made into an equally predictable film. The result, called Run, Angel, Run, is, however, something more than fodder for the teeny-bopper drive-in trade. For all that is patently naive and even painful to watch, there are occasional scenes, such as a dinner-table argument and a tense ride with some hobos on a fast freight, that have a kind of tough virtue...
...precisely this myth that allows unjust practices such as the blithe displacement of the less well-educated people unfortunate enough to live in areas where the University wants to expand; or that makes it OK to send our guys who couldn't stomach high school to Vietnam as cannon fodder, while deferring those who were able to sit quietly in class or had better spelling...
...demonic group mysticism" of We-Them can evolve into a "brotherhood unto death," as in Nazi Germany. "Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same thing, feel the same threat, then their behavior is already captive," says Laing. "You have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder." He calls We-Them "the ethic of the Gadarene swine," and its cataclysmic credo is "to remain true, one for all and all for one, as we plunge in brotherhood to our destruction...
...people exist to create a backdrop for leaders, to applaud and shout 'hurrah' for them, to believe in them blindly, to pray for them, to endure without murmur all scorn of them selves and to quack with pleasure when into his trough they pour more and richer fodder than into the other troughs...
...pound level. This means in effect that the dairy must buy all the milk a farmer delivers, then pass on the surplus butter to the government stockpile at the minimum price. Such assurances have made the German farmer even more attached to his cow. Fed now with enriched fodder, notably U.S. soybeans, German cows have been producing record quantities of milk in recent years...