Word: bathroomed
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...bathroom is the most important room in any house. It is the one place where people can be nude, solitary and mute for any protracted period. It is a refuge for all reasons, serving also as laundry room, solarium, greenhouse and primping parlor, a place for delousing pets, deep thinking and stashing wet umbrellas. Yet even in its more basic functions, the contemporary American bathroom is "hopelessly antiquated and inadequate," in the view of Alexander Kira, an architect and Cornell professor who has immersed himself in the subject for 17 years. Indeed, he points out, the Western loo has changed...
...Bathroom (Viking), a newly updated and expanded version of an urbane study he published in 1966, Kira argues that the standard bathroom is uncomfortable, unsanitary and unsafe. The average 5-ft. by 7-ft. model is badly lit and ventilated; it seldom provides adequate storage and counter space for all the tubes, jars, bottles, blades, brushes and electrical appliances that have become the indispensable artifacts of ablution. Clearly, if cleanliness is next to godliness, it is also next to impossible in bathrooms that lack "facilities for perineal hygiene," meaning bidets. Moreover, some 275,000 people in the U.S. are injured...
...miners' reaction to Miller, Siefert and a third new miner, Toni Campbell? They are resentful because, among other things, the women are exempt from shoveling and other heavy jobs. Smaller matters also trouble the women. Among them: finding a private spot, 800 ft. underground, to go to the bathroom...
...jail official on his rounds spotted the ominous signs around 9 p.m. in cell block 7: jagged tiles - handy for weapons - missing from a bathroom wall and menacing whispering between cells. Then, recalls another official, Deputy Assistant Warden Roy Caldwood: "All hell broke loose...
...slowly around the large room. But she is a disciplined woman who leads a supremely organized life, and she does not spend much time pacing and gazing, even when afflicted with writers block. She will simply walk toward a little doorway in the far corner, pass through a tiny bathroom, and emerge in her second writing room. In that room, another desk is cluttered with another set of papers. This is the room where Sissela Bok is writing a book about lying and deception. When she tires of medical ethics, she will write about dishonesty; when she tires of dishonesty...