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ration
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A Gesture Life
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- Typically, officers would have the privilege of spending hours and sometimes whole evenings with a woman, but in this instance a special rationing had been instituted.†
p. 110.7 *rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
- The natives had been instructed to prepare them with a tiny ration of shoyu and the local palm wine, an attempt intended to make us feel comfortable but which unfortunately served more to remind us of Japan than anything else, and our immense distance from it.†
p. 144.1
- At the time we were still in good contact with the supply line, and there were modest but still decent rations available to us, though it was clear the supplies were growing steadily feebler with each transport.†
p. 164.1
- There was no ration of sake in the supply shipment except a few large bottles for the officers, but the men didn't seem to mind.†
p. 166.1
- The corporal was not a natural runner, lacking any real physical gifts, and he could have appeared to be awkwardly exercising, oddly stretching his legs, though hardly a soul was exerting himself any more than was necessary those days, given the shrinking rations of food and fresh water and the sapping seasonal heat.†
p. 187.1
- He should be considered as guilty as any saboteur who had stolen or despoiled the camp's armament or rations.†
p. 189.5
- I dressed and began my usual ablutions: a quick wash with a dampened rag, a fitful, pulling shave with a knife's edge, and then a meager, rationed morning meal of barley porridge and tea from the officers' mess.†
p. 225.3rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
- She was weakened from the blood loss, and I had the orderly wrap her in blankets and instructed Mrs. Matsui to give her an extra ration of porridge from her supplies and some dried fish broth as well, which she stridently protested but could do nothing about.†
p. 226.9
- Then I would go to the officers' mess and ask for a half-ration of cooked rice from the mess sergeant, who would nod and not say a word.†
p. 241.6
- In fact there was a full ration of food for her at Mrs. Matsui's, but she had refused to eat in the days before she was sent to the commander's hut, and it was only in the time with me that she finally began relenting before her hunger.†
p. 242.4
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)