Add to this a weekly ration of gruesome deaths and afflictions, and you have a guaranteed hit.

Together with one kilogram of potatoes, this then formed the entire weekly ration.

The government's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission is handing out weekly rations to about 500 people camping around the local office.

Field slaves were given weekly rations of food by their master, which included some meat, corn meal and flour.

Exact amounts for the weekly and monthly rations in 1990 were as follows:

But Bowman showed up, on the way to a deli to pick up his weekly ration of rice pudding, made fresh that day.

They are so hungry that they can often be seen breaking open the weekly rations as they leave.

Luckily Eddy, though a sympathizer, was not wanted as a Communist and had weekly rations.

But some Berliners, who had been standing for hours in long queues waiting to buy their weekly rations, refused to budge.

This week the weekly ration was halved, to 20 liters.