Word: rationalize
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Along with her name, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, three-week-old second-born of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, acquired an identity card, a ration book, a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of cod-liver oil, duly presented by officials from the Westminster food office. Next day, Anne had her first outing, a tour around the garden at Clarence House in a black baby carriage, a hand-me-down from her brother, 22-month-old Prince Charles...
Martin Merchant, long unwashed, his red beard tangled with sweat and dust, sat on a can of mortar ammunition and savored a cup of C-ration coffee. Three flies took swan dives into the coffee. Merchant looked at them philosophically. "You're not going to drink that stuff now, are you?" a correspondent asked. "Those flies just came off those dead over there in the ditch...
...include political opponents of the Communist Party, criminals serving out their sentences, refugees from eastern countries, and East German workers laid off in other industries. The Reds have recently launched a huge campaign to persuade German workers to "volunteer" for the mines. Workers who refuse may lose their food ration cards...
Democrats and Republicans alike had been hearing from constituents who were overwhelmingly in favor of price controls, though not so eager for either wage controls or rationing-which both Harry Truman and Bernard Baruch agreed go hand in hand with price control. Pennsylvania's Republican John Kunkel announced in the House that he was going to introduce an all-out, Baruch-like control bill. Since this reversed the Republicans' previous stand, Truman Democrats suspected a trap. There was no machinery ready to ration all goods and police all prices across the land; the Administration feared chaos would result...
Last week advance elements of the 1st Marine Division-a "reinforced regimental combat team" numbering about 5,000 men- landed at Pusan in South Korea. The marines, who carried, along with their shiny new equipment, a large ration of glory in their packs, arrived at the critical moment in the Korean fighting-which was also a critical moment in U.S. history.* Korea would not turn out to be much less tough than Guadalcanal; it might turn out to be tougher. The commander of the Marines in Korea, Brigadier General Edward Craig, has recently expressed an opinion...