Word: bathroom
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Mallory's apartment has four rooms, but he rents out the front room to a Puerto Rican mother and two children. If that family wants to use the kitchen, or the bathroom at the far end of the kitchen, they must ask Mallory's permission. On the bathroom door Mallory has posted a sign: DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. Of the two other rooms, one belongs to Michael and Michael's mother Eileen. The other is Mallory's bedroom, nearly filled by a low queen-size bed with an upholstered maroon headboard into which a clock...
...leaves to go to the bathroom. While he is out, Ralphy snatches a piece of Michael's candy. Lori and Betsy come down hard on him. Michael returns, takes immediate note of the theft. He says, "My candy," wanly, as if making a disinterested discovery, and takes no action. Ralphy tells him, "I took the purple one." Michael seems not to pay attention. He takes his cup of remaining candy and offers a piece to Lori: "Want candy...
...vote to balance the budget within five years or face automatic cuts. "What % this bill does is put the fat in the fire," declared Gramm. "It forces decisions." Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, however, likened Congressmen voting for the bill to "the person who writes on the bathroom mirror in lipstick, 'Stop me before I kill again...
...while the Zamboni is clearing the ice between periods, you get to huddle with other fanatics in the bathroom in an attempt to keep warm...
Despite the ceaseless efforts of cleaning crews to keep surfaces clean, the writing consistently reappears on carrel walls and bathroom stalls. The wooden desks in Lamont are scored with gouges, although the ink has been washed away. One such etching offered the following message, a testimony to the inevitable end of even the most lovingly inscribed graffiti...