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Word: gruelingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas: capitalism v. Communism, free enterprise v. state control. And here in 1959, the true strength of the U.S. was in the spread of its ideas through deeds and example around the globe. More and more nations demonstrated that they are not interested in Russian borsch or communal Chinese gruel. Having tasted free enterprise, they are determined to sit down to the entire meal. The position of the U.S. was never stronger. But it would have to keep on exercising its leadership. FRB's Martin puts it flatly: "The U.S. faces the '60s with the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Remember the Neediest | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Remember the Neediest | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Drumbeats and Song | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Harriers Down Boston University, 24-35 | 10/5/1955 | See Source »

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