Word: grueling
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...realized that "so far from being socialist, the system that had finally become established in Russia was a particularly vicious form of fascism." Through one of the youthful patients, Tarsis bitterly asks: "What is Communism?" His answer: "The apotheosis of drabness, the negation of personality, life on semolina gruel in a one-room flat with a bathroom-lavatory and a combination divan-bed-cupboard-desk-bookcase...
...Kerala state government at a combined wage of $84 per month, well above India's average, these days are forced to halve the family's milk consumption, cut out eggs entirely, and stretch the supply of rice by eating it in the form of soupy gruel. A Calcutta schoolteacher who makes $55 gives his children two meals a day, but can afford to eat only once daily himself. Worse off still is the hapless Bombay textile mill worker, who must overspend by $6 monthly and make up his deficit by borrowing from money lenders...
...prisoners was just short of murder. Outside on the windy steppes the average winter temperature was 17° below. Inside the barracks, the ceilings were always coated with frost. Every day the prisoners were sent out to do senseless, back-breaking labor. Meals were always the same watery gruel with chunks of rotten fish (Shukhov was jeered because he refused to eat fish eyes when they were floating free in the soup). The guards made the prisoners undress outside to be frisked, beat them with birch clubs, threw any who talked back into a barely heated "cell," where...
Dickens takes the count after approximately two minutes and 35 seconds of the first act. As the curtain goes up on Sean Kenny's somber hewn-wood set, a dozen or so boys are released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...
...work of Jesse Kip, and was probably made between 1720 and 1722 for the Douw family. The caudle cup, also the work of Onckelbag. is engraved with the stars-and-windmill arms of the Van Cortlandt family, was used for dispensing a mixture of wine or ale, eggs, gruel, sugar and spices to the sick and their visitors. Onckelbag's bowl with graceful curved handles is 12 in. wide and is ornamented with a floral design showing a strong Scandinavian influence; inside the base are the Twyford family arms. The porringer was made by Jurian Blanck...