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Word: toilet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rivalry between Holworthy and Thayer played a huge role in my happiness here freshman year. It started off with plain insults, then insults over loudspeakers, then snowball fights. The best thing we ever did to Thayer, though, was to go over there one Saturday night and steal all its toilet paper. It may sound silly now, but it was hysterical then. Besides, we needed the toilet paper...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Just for the Fun of It | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...beer they gave me and the t-shirt that said something like "better luck next time" did not raise my spirits. But three years later, I do not want to leave Cabot House; that is, except to run over to Thayer every now and then to get some more toilet paper...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Just for the Fun of It | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...work out," she told her audience last Friday after learning the news. "I've been in this business 23 years; I'm going to be in this business another 23 years." Then her guests closed the show by turning over the sofa and festooning the set with toilet paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1987 | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...election-related incidents, including 34 on polling day itself. Still, that is a marked improvement over the 158 killings reported during the 1986 presidential campaign, which precipitated Marcos' ouster. This year's death toll might have been higher if police had not disarmed an incendiary device in a toilet of the Comelec building last week. Police said the bomb, thought to have been planted by G.A.D. supporters, could have destroyed the three-story structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Giant Step for Democracy | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

West Germany has not had a census in 17 years, and officials insist they need current data for deciding such matters as tax allocation and the delineation of election districts. The census poses 33 questions, on topics ranging from a person's religious affiliation to whether he has a toilet in his home. The Greens argue that the census is an invasion of privacy and that officials will misuse the statistics. The government has struck back by bursting into the Greens' offices and seizing anticensus brochures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Counting Heads Or Sheep | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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