Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justice and loving devotion and to walk humbly each with his neighbor, to guard faithfulness in the land with a strong purpose and a broken spirit." The punishments they administered were severe: for speaking brusquely "so as to undermine the composure of a fellow" the offender's food ration was cut for one year; for falling asleep or spitting in a public session it was cut 30 days...
...satisfaction of seeing the city slickers lined up all around the block trying to get ducats for his play. Show biz is about as comprehensible to him as a Variety headline, and creates a surrealist zone in which Jack can never find his way, especially after the daily ration of martinis. To make matters worse, his wife and four children bulk awfully large just about the time Jack has begun trailing after lovely Star Irene Lovelle like a morose coon hound...
...Europe. Author Korbonski, a lawyer, had charge of communications, and tells in compelling detail how within four months he established radio contact with London and built up a succession of hideouts for his transmitters. The underground had its own court, newspapers and parliament; illegal printing presses poured out forged ration cards and even German military passes...
...halt. Hungary may have to lay off more than 200,000 workers in the next few months, and unemployment is a major problem in Bulgaria. The breakdown of Hungary's vitally located railroad system has prevented the normal flow of Rumanian oil to Poland, forcing the Poles to ration oil and gas. And poor harvests in Rumania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria have cruelly pinched already inadequate food production; East Germany, which had hoped to end food rationing in 1957, has dropped the idea...
...Power & the Prize. In London, the Ministry of Fuel and Power soberly accepted a petrol-ration application from Fire-Eater Priscilla Birt, deliberated three weeks, granted her a gallon a month after classifying...