Word: foodless
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...average U.S. citizen found the President's food-saving program pretty frustrating. If foodless days had been decreed by law, the thing would have become a sporting matter of eating and dodging the Feds. But being put on the honor system had thrown the country into a nail-biting state of indecision, and also seemed to make it feel hungry...
...readers were so taken by Mrs. Hunkle's foodless plight and her generosity that they sent her 400 pounds of eatables...
...greet the homecomers there were only a handful of brass hats, newsmen and stevedores. The Army banned the public from the pier. In the bustle of disembarkation the soldiers missed more meals: one large group went foodless for 15 hours. The Army refused to let Canadian Legion and Red Cross canteen trucks on the dock...
...battling in a woods to which the airborne finally had to fall back. Here their hell was not quite a mile long, little more than half a mile wide-a packed patch of screeching shells, of fire-spouting tanks that broiled men alive, of strafing planes, of sleepless nights, foodless days. Bespectacled Major Royston Oliver, 30-year-old Airborne press officer (now in an English hospital to save his wounded hand) told about it in a diffident, British...
Through Calcutta's crowded streets a destitute army over 100,000 strong roamed foodless, homeless, hopeless. Families were jerked apart as mothers peddled daughters for a few rupees. Sons committed suicide to conserve scanty family stores. All around lay the hunger-shriveled dead awaiting, sometimes for hours, the arrival of corpse-removal squads...