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ration
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
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They even let me inside the guard station a few times and shared a piece of chocolate from their rations.†
p. 71.3 *
At dawn I ate my ration of bread, returned to the barracks, and fell exhausted into my bunk.†
p. 137.1
Sometimes, the morning after one of his late night visits, I would go to get my rations only to discover that Schindler had left word I should receive two portions.†
p. 141.1
The rations of bread were smaller.†
p. 159.1
When I said we never had enough to eat, he responded, "We had rationing here, too."†
p. 186.7

rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage

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)