Word: grueling
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India's nutritionists have always found it far easier to develop protein supplements than to get Indians to eat them. The high-protein gruel, Balahar ("nutritious child's food" in Hindi), concocted of wheat, peanuts and powdered milk, has been widely distributed in drought-stricken Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh states. But mothers often withhold the protein-rich lentil dal from their babies because they believe it upsets young stomachs...
...Teacher Corps has teetered on the brink of starvation from birth. The program to send federally recruited, federally paid teachers into the nation's worst slum schools came into being in 1965, almost as an afterthought to a larger education bill. Congress left the program's gruel bowl empty of dollars until the following year, then handed it a subsistence diet that was due to run out last week and seemed most unlikely to be replenished...
Fuel oil, ripped from tanks, turned the flood waters into a greasy gruel. No one is yet sure quite how to cleanse the stains on countless marbles and murals...
Saturday the hockey team opens its intercollegiate season against Colby in Waterville, Maine, and in two weeks its hits the toughest part of its schedule. After Harvard meets Northeastern, St. Lawrence, Clarkson, Brown, and Toronto in a ten-day gruel starting December 8, it will be much clearer whether Harvard's return to hockey prominence is here or still one year away...
...bullocks, and with them he plods across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed in prehistory by some Indian prototype who faced the same harsh, crumbling earth. In a year, he raises scarcely enough to feed his bullocks. For lunch Ramoo eats another chapatty covered with watery gruel, and perhaps a slice of mango chutney hoarded by his wife to give the food some flavor. Then back to the plow...