iron rations
Example Sentences
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All three agreed that relief funds were now being spread so thin that those being helped were on "iron rations."
From Time Magazine Archive
Disappointed we lie down and consider whether we couldn’t have a go at the iron rations.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Their leather pouches which held enough iron rations to keep them going were always at hand.
From The Time Traders by Andre Norton
Lists of casualties had to be prepared, ammunition, flares, Verey lights, and iron rations had to be given out.
From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
Every man, besides carrying a "First Aid" bandage in the flap of his coat, carries a day's "iron" rations in his haversack.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by John Allister Currie
