rations

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“We were born in the Second World War, 1944 and we had rations — we were living on suet and you were living on steak here,” Daltrey said in his own interview.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

After four months of princess treatment and double rations for Penelope, zookeepers checked on her nest in front of a throng of excited reporters.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

Last month, a UN official told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of people were "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

The GHF does not elaborate on how it defines a meal, but it has previously stated that it calculated daily rations at 1,750 calories, well below the 2,200 calories target used by humanitarian organizations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

He lifted two bags of food, our rations.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff