Word: ration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible ounce of weight, this water must be recycled: condensed from the air and extracted from urine and feces. Food cannot be recycled without making the spaceship a flying farm, and Dr. Pace is not even sure that preserved food will be satisfactory for a long voyage. No preserved ration, he said, has been developed that can be tolerated for more than a month or two without bad effects. So the spaceship may have to be big enough to carry frozen food lockers...
...back-to-the-village" drive swept over Shanghai. "Volunteer" migrants were picked up by the government, persuaded when possible by a saturation propaganda campaign, more often forced to leave by such devices as canceled food ration cards...
...traditions of free enterprise, Shanghailanders made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...
...Cabinet voted to increase its buying up of wine and distribute it in weekly rations of about a quart apiece to the country's "economically feeble," i.e., paupers, sick people over 60, everyone over 65. The Cabinet also recommended that the Defense Ministry increase by 50% the army's ration, now a pint of rough red pinard a day. In doing so, the government neatly canceled out former Premier Mendés-France's campaign to cut down on winebibbing among the soldiery. By Mendés-France's order, the serving of milk is obligatory...
Timorodee Patoo-Patoo. The expedition had smooth sailing until it hit Tierra del Fuego. There, an overzealous scientific party of twelve, bent on collecting hundreds of new botanical specimens, got ambushed by a howling snowstorm and lost two men. The survivors staggered back to the ship after a ration of three mouthfuls of fresh vulture, "each man given his share, raw, to cook as he pleased...