Word: squeezer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This season, Yale had the distinction of losing to Dartmouth at home for the first time ever. Meanwhile, Brown dropped a 3-2 squeezer to Army, which plays hockey in combat boots...
...course, all was not happy in Mudville. Whenever I placed a roll in its holder--after debating for hours one end which way to hang it to prevent disease--I found that the toilet paper was too wide for its holder, or, more aptly named, its squeezer...
...have found that the squeeze phenomenon is not unique to my sophomore year bathroom, which, as a result of renovations to Briggs Hall, no longer exists. The room was gone when I returned to Briggs this spring, but the toilet paper squeezer was still there. In fact, almost everywhere I go around Harvard, I find a t.p. squeezer...
Except for the Sackler Museum. The Sackler has an even more inventive way to prevent overwiping. Though no squeezer prevents the toilet paper from breaking as you pull it off the roll, a unique device prevents the roll from spinning around more than once. Instead of one sheet at a time...
...Hampshire's Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey loves being known as a nickel squeezer. In his first term he has so far proudly returned $560,000 in unspent office funds to the U.S. Treasury. In a state where talk of taxation is political suicide, Humphrey, 44, boasts, "Six years ago I promised I would be the toughest skinflint in Washington, and I've kept that promise...