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ration
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Flags of Our Fathers
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Rationing began not long after.†
Chpt 2. *

rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
Americans pitched in to support strict rationing programs and their boys turned out as volunteers in various collection "drives."†
Chpt 3.
"He was the only one in the whole bunch," Bill Ranous liked to joke, "who thought that K rations tasted good."†
Chpt 5.
Running over the heads of 22,000 well-fed troops with plentiful rations that could hold them over for five months.†
Chpt 6.

Definitions:

(1) (ration)
a fixed share of something, especially scarce goods like food or fuel; or to limit and distribute something in fixed shares
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)