In a 1969 Life interview, Avakian stated that he "wanted to make a kind of pop, camp thing that wouldn't be a complete ordeal for parents" while everyone else involved in the production wanted "Dick, Jane and Doggie".
Just a few months ago, I moved from a student dorm to an unfurnished flat with two friends, and went through the complete ordeal of furniture hunting,planning,transporting it and setting it all up.I think by the end of it all, we probably became experts in assembling IKEA furniture, fixing light fittings, drilling holes in the walls and fixing shelves.
Once elected, a youth must complete their Ordeal within one year.
Channel swimmers never forget the words of the first successful Channel swimmer, Matthew Webb, who completed the ordeal in 1875.
"There's a conflict in your head: you've completed this ordeal and there is a massive sense of relief but then you're trying to comprehend the fact that you've actually done it, you're Olympic champion in your home country.
My first orientation was a two-day ordeal, complete with an in-depth tour of the gigantic campus and several ice breakers-If I had to say my name, hometown and something interesting about myself one more time, I was going to jump ship.
Though Coulehan and the original ER doctor agreed on the diagnosis and ordered some Vicodin, what followed was a full-day ordeal, complete with opthamologists, neurologists, CT scans, and other unnecessary treatments that ended up billing $9,000 to his insurance company.
Their personal ordeals, complete with some level of post-traumatic stress and difficulty returning to civilian life, mirrored those of the soldiers they followed.
Here, for the first time, is the cabin boy Thomas Nickersons complete account of the ordeal.
"His ability to keep the jury together through that very difficult ordeal, and complete the trial in an efficient manner, was one of the most remarkable things I've seen," Mr. Gravante said.
When this long ordeal is complete, the earth's own contours clothe Alva so thoroughly that, as she points out, "I was unable to undress myself completely ever again".
