Word: grueling
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Those two investigators fed healthy students and hospital patients roast beef, hamburger (Liberty) steak, beefsteaks, stewed beef, boiled corned beef, dried beef and bologna sausage. They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables. And immediately after each meal, 'they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress...
...little woman nobly responds under the optimism of her learned mate and leads the way to the dinner table where the evening repast of water gruel is ready for distribution among the stricken troop...
Nevertheless, shoulder-slapping, grips and the password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...
...Steaming gruel, juicy lamb chops, southern -cooked biscuits, crisp bacon all went into Room 19 and came back almost untouched. Doctors, nurses, urged the patient to eat, but Earl Carroll would only turn his head away, answer: "I can't, I can't." In some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...thickish gruel, more or less refined, Poured in a bony noggin called the head...