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ration
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Unbroken - adapted for young adults
(Edited)
- The rations dwindled.
p. 156.8rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- Unloading ration trucks, captives saw nutritious fare, but it was never served to them, because the Japanese were stealing it.
p. 156.8ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- The rations weren't nearly enough, and he was plagued by diarrhea.
p. 157.1rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- Rations were slashed.
p. 165.5
- Camp officials stole the rations, and the captives wasted away.
p. 167.6 *rations = a fixed portion of food for each person
- Rations were meager and of terrible quality and nutritive value.
p. 177.2rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- For unenslaved officers and men too sick to work, rations were halved.
p. 177.4
- He looked for the corporal through morning roll call, farting at the emperor, and forcing down rations.
p. 179.1
- The one good thing about being an officer in Omori was the exemption from slave labor, though at the painful cost of half the ration.
p. 179.2ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- On a late October day in 1944, Louie pushed a wheelbarrow into Tokyo, joining a guard to pick up rations.
p. 183.1rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- The Naoetsu rations—mostly seaweed—didn't help him.
p. 202.1
- And because they were working, the officers were granted full rations.
p. 202.9
- Though rations were dwindling as Japan's fortunes fell, a full bowl of seaweed was better than half a bowl of seaweed.
p. 202.9
- He would now be the only officer trapped in camp with the Bird all day, and his rations would be halved.
p. 205.9
- To get his rations restored, he had to find work he could do on one leg.
p. 205.9
- He'd get full rations, but there was a catch: he'd have to use his bare hands to clean the sty.
p. 206.1
- With the import of the new POWs, the population had more than doubled, but the rations hadn't.
p. 209.9
- Now the rations were still smaller, usually nothing but seaweed.
p. 209.9
- They were told their rations and supplies of heating fuel would be cut more in winter, and might be discontinued.
p. 209.9
- Louie was back on half rations.
p. 212.7
- Limping, ill, and starved, he pleaded with the Bird for work to get full rations.
p. 212.8
- Japanese trucks soon arrived, and out came rations, biscuits, and canned fruit.
p. 226.7
- Finding a table stacked with K rations—meal boxes for servicemen—he crammed several under his shirt, ignoring an attendant who tried to assure him that no one would starve him anymore.
p. 233.7
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)