Word: foddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of whether the Germans can put up an effective defense depends on how much time they have. Given enough time, they may be able to bring several divisions from Finland and Norway, and even from the Balkans. With time they can assemble more second-grade cannon fodder to stuff their pillboxes. Last week the process was already under...
Next day this Windadge was ordered to unload on Biak a cargo of C-rations. Again an unaccountable swell dumped the food into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their rations were, Windadge replied: "Full fathom five thy fodder lies...
...home Catherine had hoped to find strength to start life afresh. Instead, she found a bleak world living on a dry fodder of deathly recollections - little Cousin Bessie (died, aged eight, of a sur feit of ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them...
...mortgage-ridden St. Dominic's. For a while, they do not get along; but young Father O'Malley fixes up everything else almost too easily. He deals with a delinquent girl (Jean Heather) so silkily that before long she is married. He handles the jail-fodder kids of the street so astutely that before long they are singing Mozart's Ave Verum and liking it. He even teaches old Father Fitzgibbon how to play golf. He also writes songs which, with the help of an old friend who sings in opera (Metropolitan Diva Risé Stevens...
...Church which is the conscience of Society . . . which . . . will condemn selfish, nationalistic, imperialistic, compromising social action . . . [and will] insist upon a Society which will recognize, as Jesus does, that man is more than a producer and consumer of goods, more than a breeder of wage-slaves and cannon fodder...