Word: gruel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skeletal, sad-eyed women were preparing a watery gruel for supper, composed of green weeds and splintery, hard rice husks...
...even $3, but in China's feverishly inflated economy, the average ricksha man can buy less now than in prewar times when his income was measured in pennies. He often eats only two meals a day-one of rice and one of congee (millet or rice gruel), with salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh...
...average U.S. child listens to the radio about 14 hours a week, reported N.A.B. Yet, judging from a survey made in schools in the Kansas City area, even second-graders prefer adult programs to the tepid gruel of hackneyed high adventure served up specially for them by breakfast-food programs. (Network children's shows are down from 40 in 1940 to 27 this year...
...Some] refugees were what the Japanese call 'repatriates'. . . . Without warning, some hundreds of harmless pedestrians, hawkers and beggars are rounded up in the streets of an occupied city . . . then systematically starved in one of the worst sort of concentration camps. The daily ration consists of rice gruel cooked with bicarbonate of soda (to economize on firewood) which is served without salt, flavoring, or other addition...
...from a hill the burning of Drvar and counted 80 German planes that bombed the surrounding cliffs. In the evening an old peasant a Serb of ancient make, hung a kettle on a chain above the wood fire lit on the earthen floor of his hut, cooked pura (corn gruel), and invited me and some 20 refugee women and children to dinner. There I saw a child, bayoneted through the right upper arm by the Germans, and listened to accounts of German atrocities...