rations

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• He begins to list them off: food rations, health clinics, education.

• Revolutionary soldiers were given rye whiskey rations to get through the day.

• It might be extra food rations or a higher government position.

• Without meat, Sitting Bull gave up his dream of independence and asked the Canadian government for rations.

• They queued at roadside snack stands for rations of peanuts, a holiday tradition.

• For this reason they were obliged to diminish their rations, of which they had rather a small quantity.

• She keeps me on ridiculously low rations, and if I had not brought my own outfit I don't think she would have sold me one.

• This bureau distributed food rations and clothing to the Negroes and provided educational opportunities for them.

• When all the chairs are feet in air, Ren announces: "Soldiers, now we have beaten the Chinese, we will have our rations."

• The rations were small; and soon there was a cry that they were unfairly distributed.