Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blazed away. She shot two men dead, one of them the cook. Then, taking careful aim, Mrs. Raynes-Simson killed the man who was struggling with Mrs. Hesselburger. The Mau Mau fled, with both women in hot pursuit. Dorothy Raynes-Simson found one of her attackers hiding in the bathroom and shot him, too. Then she called the cops and asked them to collect the corpses...
...woman thought her visitors were public-health inspectors, pointed to a malodorous closet, exclaimed, "The proprietor's got a bathroom all in marble." In the growing darkness, Baudouin lit his way with a flashlight. Boys ran ahead of him calling, "The King is coming." In one crumbling house, when the King wanted to go upstairs, the residents were aghast...
...named winner of the $10,000 Dr. C. C. Criss Award, given annually by an Omaha insurance firm. ¶Every year there are about 28,000 fatal accidents in U.S. homes. Most dangerous places, says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." ¶When Rancher Jack E. Johnson of Santa Rosa, N. Mex. took his wife Paula 20, to Santa Fe, doctors knew that she was doomed by acute yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just...
...after day in 1944, Denise took her place in the bathroom of Herr Berger's apartment and inscribed notes, while Berger and his band of German and French accomplices methodically beat Resistance secrets-and sometimes the life-out of their captives. Their system for getting a victim to talk was simple but effective: they would hold his head under water and flog his neck and back with rubber hoses. Sometimes, when the captive was a woman, Denise would oblige by holding the woman's legs while torturers performed their varied rites...
Instead of roaming, most trailer dwellers settle down in parks, pay rents of $20 a month and up. For their money, they get water, electricity, laundry, and telephone service, a small plot of land, bathroom facilities, and access, in some parks, to such recreation facilities as swimming, tennis, shuffleboard or badminton...