Word: rations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight days the 20,000 people of Tanjong Malim had been confined to their homes. In the brief two hours a day in which they were allowed out to buy a reduced ration of rice, they had to pawn belongings to pay shopkeepers' soaring prices...
Immediately, 70 miles to the south, Templer clamped a new curfew and a reduced rice ration on the 4,000 inhabitants of Sungei Pelek. Here Templer hoped his new curfew-and-questionnaire technique would smoke out the whereabouts of 30-year-old Liew Kon Kim, a shrewd Communist leader known as "the bearded wonder." Templer imposed another curfew on 80 square miles of Communist-terrorized rubber estates and tin mines between Kuala Lumpur and Pahang state...
...stock up their pantries. Last week, apprehensive lest its citizens are becoming too complacent, the War Office urged all householders to look to their larders again. For the first time, the War Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter of oil). Did the War Office fear a war? Not at all, said a spokesman-just being vigilant and prudent in order to stay calm...
Faced with such self-evident truth, France's National Assembly last week gave preliminary approval to a bill raising the French soldier's daily wine ration from 500 to 750 grams (approx.1½pts.) a day. There was not a single dissenting vote...
...innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped a 22-hour curfew on the entire village, allowing inhabitants to move about only during the usual midday shopping hours, and cut the rice ration of all but children from 6⅔ to 4 Ibs. per week...