Rations

Rations is short, taters is off, and butter is gone.

With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service

Rations from the French: Our poet, however, appears to

Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782

"Rations" is a word that just conjures up disgusting food, and when you're hungry, anything that's edible is fair game without complaints.

TreeHugger 2010

Rations for prisoners on work detachments are on the heavy or long worker scale or considerably higher that the rations in force for the German base troops, namely the prisoners 'own guards.

Red Cross Report 2010

Rations were a bit messed up for the start, everyone seeming to want a cut at them, but no one wanting to be responsible.

Work Camp 1203 L 2010

The Wall Street Journal ran a Democrat-bashing opinion piece entitled How Washington Rations – ObamaCare omen: a case-study in ‘cost-control’.

duh pookie 2009

The Wall Street Journal ran a Democrat-bashing opinion piece entitled How Washington Rations – ObamaCare omen: a case-study in ‘cost-control’.

duh pookie 2009

There's a Bill Mauldin soldier cartoon where Willie and Joe are heating up C-Rations in a big pot of coffee, in which they have a chicken stewing in the bottom of the pot.

Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

Rations were the same in Germany as he had observed in England, although "I knew I would be sorry to have the war prison fare every day for a week."

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Rations for the men were now supplied in fair quantities, and the only thing required to make us wholly contented was plenty of grain for our animals.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010