Word: rations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race horse knows a day he is to run because his usual ration of hay disappears. Many animals become edgy, difficult to handle. Secretariat is so calm that just before the Derby he lay down for a refreshing 90-minute snooze. He did the same thing just before the Preakness. A TV crew does not faze him. Recently, while a handler was being interviewed, Secretariat calmly began to nibble on the microphone on the off chance that it was edible. Once, while the horse was being led to stable by Groom Ed Sweat, the leather strap broke off in Sweat...
...fashionable to talk about the need to cut back sharply or even ration the use of energy−but what would that really be like? As both an experiment and a symbol, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson encouraged the 7,500 citizens of Burlington to dim their lights, turn down their thermostats and curb their cars for two days last week. The aim: to make Burlington "Energy Conservation City, U.S.A...
Women's attitudes range from "contented" at Winthrop to "uncomfortable" at Leverett, where there is a 9:1 ration of men to women, the guide states. Leverett women said they felt pressure to conform to traditional female roles and indicated there was some feeling that women were given preference in room selection...
...issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later in the day a third meal was served...
...also castigated his biggest constituency, Chile's workers, chiding the miners for "acting like a bunch of monopolistic bankers" in their wage demands, and criticized bureaucrats for failing to improve government efficiency. To curb the groggy effects of alcohol on the workers, Allende last week threatened to ration beer. No teetotaler himself, Allende said: "The housewives of Chile will erect a monument in my honor...