All 38 Uses
ration
in
The Hiding Place
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- We were issued ration cards too, but at least that first year, the coupons represented food and merchandise actually available in the stores.†
p. 82.3
- "Was it," I ventured at last, "was it because of the rationing?"†
p. 89.1 *rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
- The Heemstras and I were talking about the things that were discussed whenever a group of people got together in those days, rationing and the news from England, when down the stairs piped a childish voice.†
p. 90.4
- Mrs. Heemstra continued with her recipe for stretching the tea ration with rose leaves.†
p. 90.6
- But they won't take anyone without a ration card.†
p. 95.4
- Without a ration card!†
p. 95.4
- But, Jews aren't issued ration cards!†
p. 95.5
- And ration cards can't be counterfeited.†
p. 95.6
- Willem, if people need ration cards and there aren't any counterfeit ones, what do they do?†
p. 95.7
- Ration cards?†
p. 95.8
- How was I going to find a source of stolen ration cards?†
p. 96.1
- Wasn't it in the department where ration books were issued?†
p. 96.4
- Ration cards.†
p. 96.9
- Supplied with ration cards, Mrs. Kleermaker and the elderly couple and the next arrivals and the next had found homes in safer locations.†
p. 98.9
- But still the hunted people kept coming, and the needs were often more complicated than rations cards and addresses.†
p. 99.1
- He poured himself a cup too, dropping in his usual five lumps of sugar as though rationing had never been invented.†
p. 100.4rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
- Nollie, Tine, and Betsie used up a month's sugar ration baking cakes for his welcome-home party.†
p. 101.5
- Mr. Smit examined and approved the hiding place for ration cards beneath the bottom step.†
p. 101.9
- Even with ration cards and forged papers there were not enough places for them all.†
p. 108.3
- We supplied Mrs. De Boer with ration cards and had arranged an emergency appendectomy from there.†
p. 109.1
- It was Rolf van Vliet, the officer who had been here when our ration cards were first delivered.†
p. 110.4
- We would have to provide a fee—in silver rijksdaalders, not paper money—plus an additional ration card.†
p. 112.3
- For one thing, being the first of the month, Fred Koornstra should be arriving with the new ration cards.†
p. 113.6
- "Where do you hide the ration cards?" a voice demanded.†
p. 130.9
- Tomorrow the new ration cards come.†
p. 140.1
- Where do you hide the ration cards?†
p. 144.3
- Kalte kost—the bread ration alone without the daily plate of hot food—was the punishment constantly held over our heads.†
p. 160.6
- It soon became clear that they believed the Beje had been a headquarters for raids on food ration offices around the country.†
p. 173.1
- Half rations for the entire barracks.†
p. 185.5
- Since the cutback in rations, I see a difference.†
p. 189.5
- If the soldiers on the front can fight on half-rations, then these lazy—" At a terrible look from the woman officer, he stopped and ran his tongue over his lips.†
p. 189.6
- There is naturally no truth in the rumor that rations at the front are reduced.†
p. 189.7
- Apparently there had been a cutback in rations recently: still the food was better and more plentiful than at Scheveningen where there had been no noonday meal at all.†
p. 191.1
- There was nothing official about that date, just a chance remark by Mrs. Floor to the effect that six months was the usual prison term for ration-card offenders.†
p. 194.7
- A whistle roused us at 4:00 when, without even shaking the straw from clothes and hair, the stampede began for the ration of bread and coffee in the center room.†
p. 211.9
- And yet it happened, this day, and the next, and the next, until an awed little group of spectators stood around watching the drops fall onto the daily rations of bread.†
p. 214.1
- In another building I received a day's bread ration and food coupons for three additional days.†
p. 235.8
- Whether I had dropped it or it had been stolen, the bread was gone, and with it the ration coupons.†
p. 236.5
Definitions:
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(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)