Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notting Hill neighborhood paid much attention. Later, after Christie moved away, a new tenant found a woman's leg behind some wallpaper in the bathroom (TIME, April 16). A police search uncovered the trussed and strangled bodies of three women hidden in a sealed closet, another under the floorboards, the remains of at least two others in a buried garbage can in the backyard. The dead woman under the floorboards was Ethel Christie...
...start, Noyes flattened the top of the bubble for better looks, then sliced out big, 16-ft.-wide openings serving as both windows and doors. Inside, Noyes put a central core with heating plant, bathroom, kitchenette and storage closet, divided the remaining space into a roomy living-dining area on one side, two bedrooms on the other. For large families, says Noyes, "you can just blow another bubble and connect it with a breezeway...
...officers had momentarily cornered him in Barnard, but he escaped out of one door as they came in the other. The Oriental was finally nabbed in the third floor closet of a vacant house opposite Cabot Hall on Walker Street...
However, the small, wiry Oriental disappeared behind Cabot before the police could get into a position to fire. Vembu then raced behind Cabot with the police close behind. He ran into the three-story house at 123 Walker St. and hid in a top floor closet...
Bathrooms account for much of the water demand, each flush of a water closet requiring eight gallons of water. Van Dorp suggested that his findings might be used as a swift and foolproof system (dubbed Teleflush by the irreverent) of rating TV programs. To no one's surprise, Van Dorp's system reveals (see chart) that Toledo's favorite is the same as the rest of the nation's: I Love Lucy...