Word: oatmealization
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There are compensations-of a kind. In the vast Soviet prison system, Vorkuta is classified as a "polar camp," which means that prisoners get better food. The daily ration includes 800 grams of bread and two warm dishes, usually oatmeal, thick soup or beans with fat. There is meat twice weekly, fish four times. Movies, usually Russian, are shown three times a month. Pravda is pasted on the wall...
...than in any other year since 1929. Battling to keep old markets, manufacturers cut costs and stretched production facilities. Scrambling for new markets, they turned out mountains of new products, ranging from Boeing's 707, America's first jet transport, to a jet-age, one-minute oatmeal for those who could no longer be bothered with the oldfashioned, two-minute kind...
...Poor. Since Japan's imperial palace burned down in 1945, Hirohito and Nagako have lived on the palace grounds in an unimpressive, unpretentious 14-room house that began its life as an airraid shelter. Each day they breakfast on oatmeal, toast and bacon, have chicken or steak for lunch and only consent to Japanese dishes at supper. The Emperor's favorite food is persimmons, and he keeps careful track of every persimmon that enters the palace lest someone make away with it. A teetotaler who hates tea, Hirohito cheers himself with lukewarm water when guests are imbibing stronger...
...orange-colored ore." He staked out a claim and then, to save his feet, fashioned a crude raft to carry him downriver to civilization. The raft upset, dumped Pick and his belongings into the river. Starting out on foot again, he lived for four days on dried milk and oatmeal. When he finally reached his truck again, he was retching with agony from arsenic poisoning picked up by drinking the fouled Muddy Creek water...
...breakfast and lunch she has coffee and oatmeal, "with lots of sugar-that's for vitality." Her dinners are hearty. "Good eatin's and good keepin's" is Grandma's recipe for health. At 10 o'clock Grandma is ready for bed: "The minute my head hits the pillow I'm dead to the world." She sleeps on an old feather tick under an electric blanket...