Word: ration
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reservoir of goodwill he had stored up by entertaining the American military on all its battlefields, in all its wars, for a half-century. Those lonely young men, facing death, didn't want soul; they wanted cheek and sass, a moment's escape, girl gags, second-lieutenant gags, K-ration gags--well-machined jokes that drowned out the machinery of war. They loved him for the trouble he took on their behalf. And their affection spread outward...
...that tradition is under attack. According to the Fédération Nationale des Cinémas Français, 13 cinemas have closed since 1985 in the Latin Quarter alone, the heart of repertoire moviegoing. Even though the independent theaters receive national subsidies in the tens of thousands of euros per screen, "it will be tough for theaters like ours in the next few years," says Daniel Cartier, projection manager at the illustrious Le Champo cinema, which has been run by the same family since 1939. Despite the theater's overall historic popularity, a recent James Bond revival...
...going to write laws for a new day? And more immediately, how do you feed 27 million people? That task requires 480,000 tons of food every month and some way of distributing it. In Najaf a woman in black with six children in tow appeared with her ration card at an American outpost. It was her day to get rice and flour. Who would feed her now? Soldiers found her enough food for a week or so; no one knew what would happen after that...
...Nightly News, a camera operator shone his lights in the faces of kneeling, bound Iraqi captives. "As I reach over here," said correspondent Kerry Sanders, leaning in to pick up a POW's food packet, "you can see that the U.S. military has provided a humanitarian daily ration." Explains NBC News president Neal Shapiro: "We don't intentionally show the faces of Iraqis. But sometimes the video comes in quickly, and we don't get a chance to edit...
...dawn, a woman in a black shawl with six little ones in tow sheepishly approached a small American outpost. She held out a ration form. It was her day to come to pick up rice and flour to feed her family. Controlling the distribution of food staples had been one of the ways the Baath Party had kept the population in check. With the party gone, she didn't know where to turn...