Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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July 2-At dawn visited the place where my friend lay dead with a bayonet wound in his head. Covered him with grass and leaves. Upon returning ate a meal of hard tack and pickled prunes...
...Moscow; Gallya's main job is to get our correspondent's reports to the Foreign Office for censoring (that takes anywhere from an hour to three days)-but another important duty is shopping for food at the diplomatic store (TIME'S correspondent is entitled to one meal a day at the press tables in the Metropole at the special price of $2 U.S.-has to have the others cooked in his rooms or buy them in a restaurant at a cost of 600 rubles apiece...
...Money." Speed is the order. Men of the 513th Quartermaster group supervise the unloading of ships bringing supplies from Britain and the U.S. Cargoes are transferred to trailers on the long docks. Most of the stevedore work is done by Belgians, who get 130 francs a day, plus one meal, plus 30 francs "shiver money," for working in Antwerp's hell...
...partner listened dejectedly as their lawyers filed notice of appeal, then went off to jail, where they glumly ate their first prison meal - lamb stew and cabbage salad...
...county of Durham, had prompted these observations by a letter to the Lancet on the mild nutritional disease common in Britain's "one-ration-book households." Women living alone often do not get enough meat and fruit, fail to eat raw vegetables. Many would rather just have a meal of tea, bread and margarine than bother with vegetables...