Word: grueling
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...went over to Adams," said one of the boys," and they had oyster stew. Now of course I figured it was the usual gruel, but there were real oysters. And they had a fresh fruit salad...
Assuming that dining hall budgets are roughly equal, it is lack of imagination--not of funds--that is to blame for the quality of Central Kitchen food. There seems no reason why sauce for the goose should be gruel for Lowell House...
...show begins on a somewhat regrettable note when the Master of Ceremonies cries, "This is your life..." Clara Mae is then bustled stagewards to watch her life travel from Gruel, Wyoming to Radcliffe College, where Clara proceeds to make good in the social "supermarket." The first act takes Clara through the Radcliffe Library, a jolly-up and a few other slow starters. What saves the act from becoming disastrously tiresome is the free swinging chorus girls (sixteen, in charming red shorts, weighing a collective ton) and the show-stopping humor of Liz Stearns as the charcoalgrey, knee-soxed intellectual...
Although the Crimson's harriers started out fast, they gave the early lead to Anthony Patrellis and Hilller of B.U. After the first third of the four-mile gruel, however, French and Reider began to put on the pressure as the Terriers faded. The Crimson regained the lead and never fell behind again...
...twelve-year-old level that they insist television has induced in the U.S. But other millions wait like a huge fifth column, eager for the day when they can switch their allegiance and their TV dials to multichannel reception and to something more stimulating than the toneless, grey gruel fed them...