K ration
Example Sentences
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“Tonight we’ll hear a remarkable story of survival from a K-ration who had been hiding on the Marianas since 1945, not knowing the war was over.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2020
His daily K-ration included hard crackers - “there was no bread or anything like that” - and canned beef.
From Washington Times • Mar. 11, 2017
Those lonely young men, facing death, didn't want soul; they wanted cheek and sass, a moment's escape, girl gags, second-lieutenant gags, K-ration gags--well-machined jokes that drowned out the machinery of war.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I would classify his actions as arising from conscious effort at cortico-thalamic integration," the woman said, like an archaeologist who has just found a K-ration tin at the bottom of a neolithic kitchen-midden.
From Hunter Patrol by Piper, H. Beam
