Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian lines up for an hour or more to get a haircut, another hour for a crude "austerity" meal at a restaurant (all meals limited to three courses, costs limited to 45? for breakfast, 55? for lunch, 72? for dinner). It takes six weeks to get shoes soled, five months to get a watch repaired. If an Australian is lucky, he gets four gallons of gasoline a month. Horse racing and all sports have been curtailed, and the gambling he loves is limited to patriotic lotteries and raffles for such luxuries as hams, sides of bacon, boxes of candy, sometimes...
...Mountains. When he could not stand Nazi domination any longer, Batouvas joined other Greeks in Crete's mountain fastness and turned from a mild, slightly paunchy Greek into a hardbitten, tough guerrilla warrior. He grew lean, learned to live on one solid meal daily; he began to develop a consummate hatred for Germans and Italians. At first he was just a guerrilla among many hundreds. Then his head for business asserted itself. Today Manolis Batouvas is one of the three main guerrilla leaders on the island. Of course Batouvas is not his real name, just as George Petrakis...
...down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...
...barged into Sicily could speak Italian. For the benefit of those who could not, the Army was ready with a neat paper handbook and guide to the language, not designed to offer a complete course in Italian, but to enable any soldier to ask ordinary questions, order a meal (and pay for it), read street and highway signs, ask directions...
...these children had head lice, especially the young ones and the older girls who never comb their hair in order to preserve permanent waves. More than a quarter of Sheffield's school children had skin diseases (most common: the itch). Many children had never been fed a hot meal, never used forks or spoons. Bed-wetting was common. Since many of the children had never seen a bathroom, they used the hearth or any convenient corner of a room instead...