Word: foddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years white-maned, heavy-jowled Painter Chirico has held to his contention that surrealism's fodder is worthless fare. Now he got around to blasting the sins (or possibly imitations of the sins) of his own youth. Squawked Chirico: 19 out of 25 "early Chiricos" exhibited recently by Paris' Galerie Allard were counterfeit Chiricos...
While Time Remains is an effort to assess the degree of that "unpreparedness" and an inquiry into U.S. relations with the rest of the world. For the most part, Correspondent Stowe writes in lumbering, low-gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic...
Everything in Sardinia tasted of locust. A sickly, bitterish flavor permeated milk, cheese and beef from cattle that had crunched the pests with their fodder. (Last year several peasants, after losing their crops, then tasting locust for weeks, went...
...said that the world food crisis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had made still further cuts necessary. Because India was exporting fewer ground nuts and Antarctic whaling results were disappointing, the ration of cooking fat was to be reduced to seven ounces a week (former ration: eight ounces). Because imports of fodder were reduced, there would soon be less bacon, less poultry, fewer shell eggs (present average: 2½ eggs per person a month). Bread might again be rationed too. "Not one grain more" of barley would go to the distillers; whiskey would be scarcer than ever, and Sir Ben was "sorry...
Which Is It? The President's message was Page One news and good fodder for editorial writers and plain citizens. Some saw it as a wise and forward-looking extension of the New Deal. Others took no sides, but thought the plan deserved thorough study. Still others, sick & tired of having government do things for folks that they might be doing for themselves, took a dim view of Harry Truman's adventure...