Word: foddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...howling success several years ago and it should be every bit as amusing now. The companion-piece is Christopher Morley's tale of the trials of the white-collar girl. Its star is Ginger Rogers and her performance won her the Academy Award, but "Kitty Foyle" is still feminine fodder. Grab 'em while you can, they're going fast...
...three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
Stores of fodder blazed up in unspontaneous combustion. German supply trains met strange accidents. German columns fell into ambush. Temporary German bridges collapsed. Serious fighting broke out in many places hundreds of miles to the German rear...
...they went, harassing the Swedes only at the river crossings. The country people were forced to bury their grain in pits and drive their cattle into the trackless swamp. By the time Charles had crossed the Dnieper, his force had begun to suffer from want of bread and fodder. The endless horizon of charred fields and burning villages strained his troops' morale. The final straw was the coldest winter in centuries-so cold that vodka froze and it was said wood would not burn in the open air. By spring, Charles's Army had dwindled from...
...developed that the enthusiastic negotiators had grossly overestimated the produce of the Ukraine. By the end of the occupation the Germans had got out only one-fifth of the scheduled exports. They got only 9,293 wagonloads of grain, 4,567 wagonloads of minerals and 23,195 wagonloads of fodder, sugar, cattle, eggs and other foodstuffs...