Word: ration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother sent me, I'd starve," the recruit said. "Eight lima beans. Count them, eight." The mess corporal was sorry: "I would like to give them more to eat, but there isn't enough to go around. I got to feed 15 or 20 more than my ration every...
...Such Thing as a Cure." Danny learned a lot in the hospital. Veteran gowsters taught him how to get a ration of white stuff. When he got out, Danny did not go home. He bummed around the country, doing odd jobs, lying, stealing, forging prescriptions-anything for a bang. Time & again he was picked up and convicted, usually to serve his sentence in the U.S. Public Health Service's hospital for narcotic addicts at Lexington, Ky. "They can withdraw you," says Danny, "but there is no such thing as a cure. You just have to stay away from...
...what he is getting on tape by reading a companion printer which types out stories in sentence form, then he can either chop the tape to edit his stories or edit them in type. By press time, his tape-fed typesetters have clanked out the day's ration...
Said Magistrate Oliver Bell at a magistrates' convention at Northampton: the Ministry's Enforcement Officer "has in his office what I think is called a smashing blonde. He sends her out with a ration book to see what she can get. I understand from butchers it is extremely hard to cut fillet steak to the exact requirement. I think it is unfair to send this good-looking girl round the shops to catch them out for twopence halfpenny...
Enter the Communists. As Juin's proposed reforms failed to reduce Moroccan tension, a situation developed that was wide-open to the Communists. Although forbidden to join unions, 55,000 Moroccan workers signed up with the Confédération Générale du Travail, dominated by French Communists. The Communists had been against the Istiqlal in 1945, but by 1949 they were jumping on the nationalist bandwagon. More & more Arabs started taking part in Communist demonstrations...