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
I found an empty K-ration carton and split it into wooden stakes.
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
