Word: ration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uprising, the Chinese confiscated all the cereal and vegetable foods in all the villages under their control and made an inventory of all sheep, cattle and yaks. Politically docile Tibetans were doled out 25 Ibs. of grain a month; less trusted Tibetans got only 17. In most cases the ration consisted of wheat and barley husks rather than the grain itself, or of poor-quality grain usually fed only to animals...
...public wants to know facts about diet and health, and a big group of U.S. scientists wants to supply them. The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K (for Keys) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well and Stay Well. From his birch-paneled office in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, under the university's football stadium in Minneapolis ("We get a rumble on every touchdown"), blocky, grey-haired Dr. Keys directs an ambitious, $200,000-a-year...
...Ukraine and northern Caucasus to compensate for Kazakhstan's losses, may yet do a little better than 1959's thoroughly mediocre harvest, the Chinese Communists seemed to be preparing their hungry people for the worst harvest since they took over in 1949. Already cut to a daily ration of 1,750 calories, Chinese commune workers were being admonished by mess-hall signs: "It is glorious to eat less than one's food ration...
...reactions to the strain. Throughout the performance, whether he is Clem Kaddiddlehopper or Cauliflower McPugg, his characters have at least one thing in common: they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose lips quiver and whose hands shake...
...based loosely on the 1945 film that established the career of twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, is set by television in the U.S. rather than England. The first episode was given over to the successful efforts of Velvet Brown (Lori Martin) to rescue a horse from the Ken-L-Ration can, had a certain oaty charm...