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1  One day a chocolate ration was issued.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
2  Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
3  The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
4  Those whose attitude towards the war is most nearly rational are the subject peoples of the disputed territories.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
6  It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
8  All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
9  All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
10  The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
11  And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2