Word: ration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a tough day sloughing through the Guadalcanal jungle, the 1944 G.I. probably found Up in Arms a blissful picture of what war might be. But ten years later, it is only a painful reminder of the low points in mass-produced wartime movies. The ingredients of this Kaye-ration are the West Coast conception of a soldier's delight: slapstick, music, sex, and patriotism. Luckily, the comedy is provided by the master of them all and Danny Kaye's git-gat-gittle and patter songs are as good now as when Sam Goldwyn first plucked him off Broadway...
...species usually found in the West. A veteran hiker passed out information about how to survive on sumac berries and roots. Another hiker urged his fellows to try living on parched corn alone, as the Indians did while on the trail, and another passed out a homemade, trail-ration bar made of dates, raisins and coconut. At mile 16, 20 of the weary dropped out (among them Editorial Writer Pusey, who had grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named the Cardinal Club. But the Justice and 16 hardy souls made the last six miles on foot...
Though the strike lasted only one day, it was nonetheless disturbing. It was the third such walkout France had seen in four months, and it was obviously not to be the last. Last week the Fédération d'Education Nationale, the French teachers' union, solemnly announced that there would soon be another-unless the government finally comes to grips with the nation's rapidly deteriorating education system...
...these banks offer two types of employment, executive and clerical. Officials are hired in a ration of one to every five other workers, a very favorable figure from the point of view of the young aspirant for a high position...
...income, to from one to three quarts of hard liquor monthly. If he proves boisterous on his allotment, the vigilant board may reduce his quota, or even lift his book. An unmarried female is usually allowed only one quart of liquor every three months, and loses this ration when she marries...