He remembers rations of two ounces of bread a day, errant troops from all sides in the countryside where he took refuge, an old woman named Mamma Lucia who would collect the bodies of soldiers.
Most have fireplaces and refrigerators; each gets its ration of two big sugar cookies every day.
Three months after it was formed, though, the council can claim two achievements: four hours a day of electricity and a daily ration of two pieces of flatbread for each adult and child.
These nuns lived in filthy dugouts, barns and stables, hoped for donations of furniture, and survived on a daily ration of one slice of bread or a bowl of onion soup along with a cup of tea.
Miss Welty was a daily visitor to the local Andrew Carnegie Library, where she was allowed what she later called "a sweet devouring" -- a ration of two books a day by the stern-faced librarian.
He was kept on a ration of one or two pencils a week until 1907, when a psychiatrist named Walter Morgenthaler arrived at Waldau and took an interest in him.
A room has been found for me near the Burning Bush (which is a streetlamp, it seems) and The Tap (which is - can this be right? - the boys' private pub, the sixth-formers having a ration of two pints a day).
To end the daily melee for bread, the council counted the town's 3,824 adults and children and arrived at a ration of two loaves of flatbread per person and arranged to have it delivered for five Syrian pounds — less than a dime.
EXPERIMENT 1: BANANAS Method: A monkey observed to have a particularly strong penchant for bananas is given a choice — he can continue his standard ration of one banana per day or he can give up bananas in exchange for an unlimited supply of a revolutionary product called New Banana.
As OPMA and NMA choose an extra ration of zero more often than the other types (see the last section), their allocated extra rations are on average lower.
