Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...will be wise for you to pay for it each year, if you can. Remember you must help each other. Those of you who have a donkey must lend it to those who haven't. You must do that . . . until those without a donkey can plant enough fodder for a donkey to eat. Then we shall distribute donkeys...
Because of a drought, crops failed in Yugoslavia this year. Corn, the main harvest, was only half that of last year; wheat was down 30%, potatoes 70%. Total loss: 4,000,000 tons of foodstuffs and animal fodder. A winter famine would cut the capacity of Marshal Tito's independent Communist government to resist Stalinist aggression...
...late for Biblical writers-the common white potato* grew from a botanical novelty into one of the world's largest food crops. Fantastically easy to raise, rich in starch, protein and vitamins, requiring little or no tillage and irrigation, it seemed the perfect poor man's fodder. Yet the very ease with which the potato flourished, cried Dr. Salaman, encouraged idleness, greed, complacency and even drunkenness...
...through the U.S., Moscow newspapers jubilantly reported, draftees were fleeing from their medical examinations-cold proof of "the lack of desire of American youth to serve as cannon fodder for the sake of increased profits for Wall Street...
...really happens, at least in Burma: somewhere between an elephant's 70th and 80th years, his big, coconut-size heart becomes as worn-out as his teeth. Too tired to follow the herd any longer, he grazes alone, but finds gathering his daily ration of 600 pounds of fodder a mammoth task. Thin and feverish, he moves down to water during the dry months and stands around keeping cool...