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Word: toilet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover portrayed President Reagan sitting ona toilet and shooting a hyperdermic needle intohis...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: Underground Mag Gives Bohemian View | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

Whether on ordinary regime or strict regime, Begun lived in a cell measuring about 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide. It contained two narrow wooden cots and an open toilet. At one end was a small window that let in narrow strips of light. "It had metal jalousies to keep out the sun and block the view to the prison yard," Begun said. At the other end was an iron door fitted with multiple locks and a closed rectangular slot called a kormushka, or feeding door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...prisoners, but they punished us severely. With criminals it was the other way around. They spoke rudely to them, but they treated them gently." Because of his defiance, Begun was often sent to the punishment cells, where conditions were even worse. "There is nothing in the cell except a toilet or a bucket. There is a plank for a bed, but no pad and no blanket, and it must be folded up against the wall in the daytime. There is a half-ration of food every other day." The cells were bitterly cold in winter. Begun estimated that he spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Crimson: has adequate supply of toilet paper in women's bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clip and Save: Excerpts From the Upcoming Lampoon-Chaparral Collaboration | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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