But in fact there has been no rice ration at all since March.

Here in 1948 during food scarcity when the ration shop owner was not ready to distribute rice rations, the shop was attacked by communist party workers.

Reduced rice rations and allegations of corruption among the officers caused discontent among the Ottoman troops.

In its simplest form (plain rice porridge, known as cháo hoa), it is a food for times of famine and hardship to stretch the rice ration.

This diverted rice could have been one explanation for the people's meager rice ration.

"New people" were segregated from "old people," enjoyed little or no privacy, and received the smallest rice rations.

Some bartered their rice rations and personal possessions to obtain aspirin and other simple drugs.

This was supplemented by a rice ration of sixteen to twenty-two kilograms a month, supplied at the concessionary rate of one riel per kilogram.

A countrywide popular demonstration against withdrawal of the rice ration, known as Hartal 1953, resulted in the resignation of prime minister Dudley Senanayake.

We don't have a rice ration.