All 42 Uses of
ration
in
Unbroken by Hillenbrand
- Men were given a ration of four beers a week, but everyone scoured the landscape for alternatives.
p. 90..0ration = fixed portion
- He found several thick chocolate bars—probably Hershey's military-issue Ration D bars—divided into segments and packaged in wax-dipped containers to resist gas attack.
p. 127..5ration = fixed portion of food
- Because the water ration was now divided by two instead of three, each man had more to drink.
p. 165..7ration = available for consumption
- It was camp policy to give diminished and/or spoiled rations to captives suspected of withholding information,
p. 197..4rations = fixed portions of food
- [A]t times the entire camp's rations were cut to punish one captive's reticence.
p. 197..4
- The men nicknamed the rations "all dumpo."
p. 197..5
- Rations were sometimes delivered to camp wrapped in newspapers, and the two kitchen laborers, Al Mead and Ernest Duva, would quietly pocket them.
p. 205..2
- The rations dwindled.
p. 206..5
- Unloading the ration trucks, captives saw beans, vegetables, and other nutritious fare, yet at mealtime, these items were almost never in their bowls.
p. 206..6ration = with available food
- Officials punished his impertinence by slashing the prisoners' rations and intensifying their exercise.
p. 207..0rations = fixed portions of food
- The few who didn't smoke still received the tobacco ration; they were richer than kings.
p. 207..2ration = fixed portion
- The rations weren't nearly enough, and Louie was plagued by dysentery.
p. 207..3rations = fixed portions of food
- Each day as they walked the barracks hall to deliver rations, they balled up an extra portion of rice and sometimes a bit of fish, waited for a moment when the guards glanced away, and tossed it to Louie.
p. 208..1
- She had a clothes washer and dryer, both rationed items that were almost impossible to buy new.
p. 213..9rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
- And that spring, the central authorities had cut rations to all prisoners dramatically.
p. 220..7rations = fixed portions of food
- With only about half of the official ration ending up in the captives' bowls, the men were wasting away.
p. 220..8ration = fixed portion of food
- On August 5, a truck bearing the month's rations arrived.
p. 223..9rations = fixed portions of food
- Curley announced that the rations were again being cut, blaming it on rats.
p. 223..9
- The rations were of better quality than those at Ofuna but were doled out in only slightly larger quantities.
p. 235..4
- Because officers weren't enslaved, they were allowed only half the ration given to slaves, on the justification that they needed fewer calories.
p. 235..4ration = fixed portion of food
- Because rations were halved for sick men who were unable to work, the ill couldn't recover.
p. 235..7 *rations = fixed portions of food
- He'd look for the corporal through morning tenko, roll call, farting at the emperor, and forcing down rations.
p. 241..3
- The one good thing about being an officer in Omori was that one was exempt from slave labor, albeit at the painful cost of half of the standard ration.
p. 241..4ration = fixed portion of food
- When sick men were taken off work duty, losing half their rations, Kano found them easy jobs to keep them officially "at work" so they could eat enough to get well.
p. 245..7rations = fixed portions of food
- With him were another POW and a guard; they'd been ordered to pick up meat for the POW rations.
p. 248..2
- The rations, which were halved for officers, rarely varied from millet or barley and boiled seaweed, plus a few slices of vegetable.
p. 279..4
- And because they were now working outside the camp, the officers were granted full rations.
p. 281..3
- Though those rations were dwindling as Japan's fortunes fell, a full bowl of seaweed was better than half a bowl of seaweed.
p. 281..4
- Not only would he now be the only officer trapped in camp with the Bird all day, but his rations would be cut in half.
p. 286..2
- To get his rations restored, he had to find work that he could do on one leg.
p. 286..3
- Spotting an abandoned sewing machine in a shed, he volunteered to tailor the guards' clothes in exchange for full rations.
p. 286..4
- This kept him going for a while, but there was soon no one left to tailor for, and his rations were halved again.
p. 286..5
- The job would earn him full rations, but there was a catch: Louie was forbidden to use tools to clean the pig's sty.
p. 286..6
- In the spring, with the import of the Kobe and Osaka POWs, the camp population had more than doubled, but the rations had not.
p. 291..3rations = available food
- Now the rations were smaller still, usually consisting of nothing but seaweed.
p. 291..3rations = fixed portions of food
- As summer stretched on and the rations dwindled, Louie and the other POWs began looking toward winter with dread.
p. 291..5
- They were told that both their rations and the barracks heating fuel were going to be cut more come winter, and might be halted altogether.
p. 291..6
- Louie was back on half rations.
p. 295..0
- Limping, sick, and hungry, he begged the Bird for work so he could get full rations again.
p. 295..1
- Ninety minutes later, Japanese trucks drove into camp, and out came rations, biscuits, and canned fruit.
p. 311..9
- Seeing a table stacked with K rations, he began cramming the boxes under his shirt, brushing off an attendant who tried to assure him that he didn't have to hoard them, as no one was going to starve him anymore.
p. 321..3
- They were instructed to monitor transactions at ration boards and prowl post offices, train and bus stations, taxi stands, ferry landings, mines, black market outlets, dive hotels and lodging houses, and any businesses that might attract a man fluent in French.
p. 359..1ration = related to restricting the amount of something each person can have
Definition:
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(ration) verb: to restrict the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage, or when more is wanted than is available
or:
noun: a fixed portion of something that is given as a person's share -- such as goods of which there is a shortage, or food for soldiers in the field