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...residents and representatives of Mather, we were shocked to learn from the recent Crimson editorial “Sorely Tested” (Apr. 25) that as a house we are “dirty, dirty, people who refuse to shower and are looking to spread [our] rashes among the Harvard student body.” Clearly, the writers of this editorial decided to Dial® up their rhetoric to Gain® a laugh at our expense. To this attempt at humor, we make no objections—Mather wholeheartedly supports humor in all of its guises and certainly expects...
...doctor was kneeling next to the detainee, and Adam went and knelt next to him. I heard them telling the captive, a Bahraini named Halim, that he was going to be all right. On the ground outside the shower I noticed a pool of dark red blood; the detainee had apparently cut his wrists with a razor. Sitting on the cellblock steps was a trembling National Guardsman, a kid of no more than 19, trying to calm his nerves with a cigarette...
...summoned me over to the shower. There was another puddle of blood, with more smeared on the wall. I realized that the blood on the wall was writing. The senior officer asked me to translate. "Sir, it reads: 'I committed suicide because of the brutality of my oppressors,'" I said. The young soldier cowering on the steps had been tasked with monitoring the detainee. When he heard me, he looked horrified. I could see he was blaming himself for the carnage, and I walked over to him. "This wasn't your fault," I said...
...thought he could scrape enough paint chips off the cells to eat all at once and do himself in, but it only gave him an upset stomach. Then for a while it appeared that he was starting to improve--until the day he requested a razor in the shower, supposedly to shave his body hair. It seemed insane to me that a detainee who had twice tried to kill himself would be allowed to take a razor into the shower. But at this point, things not making sense at the camp was starting to become the norm...
...Maxwell-Dworkin 2nd floor–The dark horse of the All-Deuce starting five, this personal bathroom is literally big enough to hold a monster truck rally. More importantly, it has a shower, so you can bathe before and ideally after. There is also a nice chair, so you can bring a friend to chat to while defecating...