Word: pleasants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less pleasant aspects of life in Holworthy is having to get your own toilet paper. Unless you showed up at school with a lifetime supply of Charmin, don't plan on signing up to take any noon classes. You see, toilet paper can only be procured from our friend in the basement of Mower. And only from 12:15 to 12:45 on weekdays. Seriously...
...College attacked the sexuality of youth as psychiatrically and morally harmful. Officials cried that "trouble has arisen because what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now, for a growing number of students, come to be considered a license to use the College rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," and they said that sexual intercourse, before college graduation, could be mentally harmful...
...Thursday, Tiananmen Square contained hardly any more people than it would on a pleasant Sunday afternoon. The difference was that the 20,000 to 30,000 students still there were camped out on tarps covered by makeshift tents of clear plastic or by clusters of umbrellas, which made it look like a beach outing in places. But living on the square's paving stones was no day at the beach. Downwind, the aroma of urine was overwhelming...
Moody became Central America bureau chief this year, following a two-year stint in Mexico City. From his new base in Costa Rica, he will be visiting Panama often -- eventually, he hopes, under more pleasant circumstances. "Covering violence in Panama is like observing a brawl in a ballroom," he says. "It's a shame that a place so beautiful should be exposed to such goings...
...ladies, Shevardnadze is not a stickler for protocol; on entering a negotiating room, he unfailingly makes the rounds of all present, shaking hands and engaging in small talk. "You don't feel that he is full of his own importance," says a West German diplomat. "He's a really pleasant fellow to do business with...