His cheeks were sunken, he lived strictly on his rations, he earned nothing. |
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Kanyaka also became a distributing centre for food, blankets and rations for Aborigines in the area. |
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That same year the station was also selected for the distribution of rations and blankets to the Aborigines. |
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The quartering of soldiers upon peasants and citizens generated severe altercations, mostly concerning rations and pay. |
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Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases. |
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A much larger problem is the army rations that make up the rest of my diet. |
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All government employees were supplied with food rations, which they kept in their living quarters. |
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So as the forces move forward, they have already distributed 300,000 humanitarian rations. |
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Unable to supplement their meager rations via hoarding or purchases on the public black markets, inmates soon deteriorated. |
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Forced labour and starvation rations ensure that prisoners are too weak to rebel. |
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Heads of families collecting the monthly rations have been asked to check the details of their households. |
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As you know, the coalition countries have been air dropping daily humanitarian rations for you. |
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By contrast, the commissary officer has been responsible for the provision of rations alone. |
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Although its taste is barely acceptable these meager rations were all the station dared supply. |
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They are completely dependent on the meagre rations provided by the Colombo government. |
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Sixty percent of the population depends totally on food rations from the UN oil for food programme for basic nutrition. |
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In 1926 Bruce Chapman, a cameleer and station hand, had a large supply of rations pilfered at Mount Peake. |
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Emergency rations are always carried on board the Soyuz, so we made our lunch from these. |
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Likewise, feedlot operators will be able to feed rations matched to an animal's economic promise. |
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Kanimbla also provided support to landbased personnel through the provision of fresh rations and a laundry service. |
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Afterward, I drank whisky with my friends, nibbled at the unappetizing rations, and smoked and smoked. |
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These food rations act as an incentive for income transfer among community members. |
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Although this was the amount of rations laid down by law some of the shady crews often kept back food for to sell when they reached shore. |
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Millions of leaflets were airdropped along with tons of humanitarian rations. |
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First, they are heavy, and adding them to a soldier's kit that already includes ammunitions, rations, and other heavy items may be undesirable. |
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They get paid a lot better than the regular army, have better equipment, barracks and rations. |
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These food, medicine and drink powder rations can be safely rehydrated with even dirty water. |
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After trucks fought their way through hostile towns to resupply us, I found myself hoarding rations like a shipwreck survivor. |
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She sighed and started rooting though her rations pack looking for more food. |
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I remember receiving letters from home commenting on the shortages of rations and loo paper which had widely been reported in the press. |
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Travellers, short on water rations, have died drinking the milky sap of its poisonous foliage. |
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The project also provides bi-weekly rations of bread from local bakeries for elderly pensioners. |
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Here also, around 10 villages have been marooned and are being provided rations from the air. |
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The emergency rations consumed, we were marooned, starving in a hostile land. |
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After tomorrow, when's the next time Will will have a hot meal, not army rations? |
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In the cells the prisoners were not allowed to speak at all and the rations were very low. |
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There are ships off the coast with humanitarian rations and medicines aboard. |
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By mischance the second not was omitted and gave the impression that the inhabitants of Pakistan were delighted with their meagre rations. |
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The squadron deployed its own field kitchen to provide fresh rations, including a daily morning tea on the job sites. |
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Although suffering from hunger because of a prolonged drought and government cutbacks in their rations, the Sioux were not taking up arms. |
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Grabbing a light book bag, I put my food rations, four clips of ammo, a bowie knife, a flashlight, and a radio communicator into it. |
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Once the weather had died down, I found to my horror that I had about 100 kg of sea water soaking my rations. |
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Guru Hargobind uplifted their spirits with daily prayers and distributed much of his rations to them. |
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The soap was issued to all the Aboriginals each week as part of their rations, along with their stick of nicki-nicki. |
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The basic army rations were poor, mainly consisting of hard tack biscuits and black coffee. |
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Meals consisted of fish caught with bone harpoons and cooked over a small hearth, as well as rations of palm sugar and fruit. |
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A suspicious policeman insisted on checking their cases, which contained escape rations. |
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There were several boxes of equipment, medical supplies, and field rations. |
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A mile or so down the freeway, an army truck lost a couple of pallets of rations on a tight turn. |
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It's an urgent delivery because they're running low on chow, and for the past few weeks, they've been on reduced rations. |
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If unable to find private employment, the pass-holders could work for the government, which would give them rations but no wages. |
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As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food. |
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All of a sudden my basement box of emergency food looked like rations in a Civilian Defense fallout shelter. |
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Food rations and special-forces commandos are being airlifted into Afghanistan. |
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His rations change daily according to available feedstuffs like citrus pulp, brewers grains, sorghum silage and other by-products of the area. |
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The slick staffers of the Green Zone were reduced to half rations and had to eat compo rations because the MSRs were shut. |
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I virtually went native for much of the time, eating entirely the Indian food that was supplied and not the compo rations. |
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A few boxes of compo rations had been opened and some of the contents removed. |
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Unfunded improvements are available in the areas of bridge, suspension, hydraulics, final drives, electrical, and water rations heater. |
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These pockets are military pockets with room for ammunition clips and grenades and iron rations. |
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The only aid they received was military rations and water bottles dropped by helicopters, after which the copters rapidly quit the scene. |
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Despite being a time of rations and coupons, people made me feel welcome and were very friendly. |
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On the frontlines, soldiers were eating K rations, C rations and D rations. |
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However, they like C rations and will eat them for a longer time than American troops will before complaining. |
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The production phases with the highest use were nursing piglets fed creep feed and nursery piglets fed starter rations. |
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They are less likely than horses to become ill or lame, and can live on frugal rations and in more extreme temperatures than horses. |
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It was a four-day trip, each man carrying his own rations, sleeping bag, clothing and personal gear. |
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Most members of his unit died of hunger, since the daily rations was 20 decagrams of bread. |
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At the far extreme of technology, meat is dehydrated by freeze-drying to provide lightweight military rations. |
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The nonsmokers could demand what they wanted in exchange for their rations. |
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Food depots were sometimes hard to relocate, and days on end of cut rations made the men's thoughts always drift back to food. |
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The troops are staying in tents, on duckboards, and eating field fresh rations. |
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Charles also ordered that navy rations stored in the docks in the East End should be given to those who had fled the city. |
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She looked at Alistra, and unbuckled her safety belt, containing a water flask, some rations, and her weapons. |
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It seemed a wonderful opportunity to travel so far at the Army's expense and camp out for a week during the Easter holidays living on compo rations. |
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It was left to the cabin crew on the flight back to offer regrets over what had happened and to double the champagne rations to show that they meant it. |
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Witnesses of the bloodshed said soldiers tried to steal some 290 tons of rations being doled out at a famine refugee camp. |
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This system means the poorer tributes are more likely to be picked since they need the rations. |
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The husband cut his own rations, feeding his share to his son. |
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They were to get the same bread rations as active soldiers, plus a specified daily pay and an opportunity to buy victuals if a commissary was not providing the same. |
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The tinned food they had in their army rations has apparently run out. |
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I have just spent the last half an hour assessing my finances and, whether I am feeling spendy or otherwise, I am on bread and water rations from this point on. |
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They will be given basic daily food rations, but few luxuries. |
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The arrival of our daily food rations was an event largely ignored. |
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Our food supply is running low so rations have nearly been cut in half. |
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The rations handed out to the poor are always missing one or two items. |
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The two posses decided to join forces and set off hauling their rations down the street. |
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Many of the dairy farmers we know would love to put field peas in their rations, cows seem to really milk on peas, but there is very little supply in the East. |
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He was a chap who was getting on for 50, I should think, a lieutenant quartermaster, not a fighting man at all, and yet he'd brought up all these rations. |
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The only part of boarding school I enjoyed were the midnight feasts, which became a necessity to supplement what I felt were measly breakfast and lunch rations. |
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Fully equipped with a week's worth of rations, our progress from this city of contradictions leaves behind the tarmac road for rough tracks of sand and stone. |
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Zephyr sighed and took some of the rations and began nibbling on them. |
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Always overloading, he had brought a case of extra ammo for every gun and bow, rations to last three days, the hydrator, a backup tent, and his signaling equipment for Keahi. |
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He continues to visit, bringing with him extra rations of bread for Elie. |
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Perhaps they could be made to live on wartime rations tins of snook, dried eggs, carrot pudding until they return to normal size, and are ready to rejoin the rest of us again. |
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Better still, I was entitled to double rations in the cookhouse. |
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They queued at roadside snack stands for rations of peanuts, a holiday tradition. |
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Without meat, Sitting Bull gave up his dream of independence and asked the Canadian government for rations. |
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The rations I wanted were 20 bags of flour, 6 bags of sugar, a couple of bags of rice and tapioca, 50 pounds of tea, and 50 pounds of nicki-nicki. |
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Even the furloughed convicts who boil down pine trees into turpentine in my vast forest have been receiving an extra pullet or two in their monthly rations. |
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He developed cardboard refrigerator boxes with three-ply walls to safely and accurately deliver rations to refugees without using heavy crates or parachutes. |
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It is an excellent replacement for oats in rations needing bulkiness. |
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The meals in the case of C rations would not always be the same from one case to another as the date of production on any case of C rations may vary widely. |
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German planes landed in New Orleans to deliver food rations, as well as a team of drainage specialists. |
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They're prone to giving away their rations and living off the smell of an oily rag. |
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Zero temperatures, maybe hot coffee and oatmeal in the morning, K rations for lunch and if you were lucky chipped beef on toast for dinner. |
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Cato the Elder once advised cutting his rations in half to conserve wine for the workforce. |
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Take frequent water breaks and pour rations of about a cup at a time so the pooch doesn't overdrink. |
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Food was in short supply in the conquered areas of the Soviet Union and Poland, with rations inadequate to meet nutritional needs. |
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Many teams set up 'coupon funds' to allow clothing rations to be contributed by members to buy kit. |
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In addition to fuel, replenishment ships may also deliver water, ammunition, rations, stores and personnel. |
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Distribution of rations and ammunition was difficult and after the water mains were broken, water could only be taken from derelict wells. |
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Under these agreements were allocations of authority, distribution of plunder and rations, as well as discipline enforcement. |
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Nine barrels have been found to contain bones of cattle, indicating that they contained pieces of beef butchered and stored as ship's rations. |
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In many areas of the world, dairy rations also commonly include byproducts from other agricultural sectors. |
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In some form, it can be traced back almost 5000 years to Mesopotamian writings describing daily rations of beer and bread to workers. |
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It is said that rations could not be distributed, nor even a cup of water drawn from a barrel, without notifying the clerk. |
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By 6 May 1522 the Victoria rounded the Cape of Good Hope, with only rice for rations. |
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Smokers were required to register for licenses for gradually reducing rations of the drug. |
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She lived a life of luxury in the grand cabin while the crew were fed on meagre rotting rations. |
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It is one of the most important and valuable feed for all types of livestocks and one of the most active ingredient for poultry rations. |
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In addition, there were enough supplies for three days' rations for the army. |
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He encamped there to give his men time to rest after their exhausting work, and to collect further rations. |
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Despite the generous supply and quality of food, some prisoners died of starvation after gambling away their rations. |
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In any case, the prison camps were miserable places where food rations were meager and conditions squalid. |
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Samuel Pepys in 1667 first regularised naval victualling with varied and nutritious rations. |
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But a British Ministry of Defence source confirmed to the BBC an incident in which ground crew had been given rations had happened. |
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The rations consist of items sold for a small sum of money at retail outlets on production of a ration card. |
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According to the new rationing system, each citizen receives EGP 15 of rations or subsidies on basic commodities on his ration card. |
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This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. |
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Keep grain rations in a goatproof place. Covered garbage cans work well if the lids are secured with tie-downs. |
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I learned to march, strip and clean a rifle, digest field rations, and ultimately have my hair cut under duress. |
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Soon after the LNO arrived, the 30th CSSB began shipping ration supplements to Sinjar to augment field rations. |
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French troops also received iron rations in the form of tins of boeuf bouille. |
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In the First World War, the Lyallpur Canal Colony sent a large number of horses and humungous quantities of rations to the Army. |
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Through January and February of 1943, the little party starved on the plateau living mainly on iron rations from one shot reindeer. |
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He kept a knapsack packed in the garage, with a compass and a knife and something he called iron rations. |
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These plans, however, seldom came to fruition and more often than not the men were forced to fall back on their iron rations. |
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Cameron is using the deficit to put Britons on iron rations, to roll back the state in a giant political leap to the right. |
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To check the power of the captain even further, the crew would elect a quartermaster to make sure the men received the necessary rations and equal distribution of the booty. |
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Meanwhile, the Nanjing facility will manufacture nutritional premixes that can be added to animal rations to promote good health and optimal growth. |
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Avalanches and rockslides cut them off for two days and James had just a handful of rations left when he was rescued by helicopter and flown back to Base Camp. |
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This allowed Eighth Army to build up supplies in the forward area unnoticed by the Axis, by replacing the rubbish with ammunition, petrol or rations at night. |
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Most other units were under strength, all men were on half rations, a large number were sick, and the entire Axis army had only enough fuel for three days. |
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In this miserable recession, many Britons are on iron rations. |
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For example, it would be more appropriate to move 10 cases of field rations using a Humvee rather than an armored vehicle that weighs more than 12 tons. |
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In this miserable recession, many of us are on iron rations. |
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I do not know if it was a Cadbury product but in the WWII we were issued with compo rations which included bars of chocolate, which was so hard that it lasted for ages. |
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Listen to hysterical Conservatives and their allies and you'd think the armed forces were on iron rations when Labour's record is better than the last Tory administration. |
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It's now 14 days in the open boat, Salt sore eyes and dry parched throat, Hard tack rations now running so low, Our sail is adrift, we are too weak to row. |
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Stock your emergency kit with an ice scraper, tire chains, jumper cables, warm clothes, a space blanket, a light source, as well as rations such as water and energy bars. |
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At Martigny the army assembled and received rations for three days. |
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Cottonseed hulls can be added to dairy cattle rations for roughage. |
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Rations would often include shchi, a type of cabbage soup, and kasha, which is boiled buckwheat. |
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Rations include a variety of insect larvae, especially mayflies, blackflies, caddis flies, and midges. |
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Rations of food and water were spiked with a hallucinogenic. |
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Rations provided for the indoor staff were much the same as those for the paupers, although more generous. |
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Rations were suspended if the ship was at dock and the men ashore. |
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