Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symptoms are dramatic enough: the initial forgetting of small things such as house keys and dates, followed by deepening confusion, hostility and depression. Then the long, slow slide back into childlike dependence, until the victim can no longer sit up, speak or go to the toilet. Yet even then, when family and friends have suffered the heartbreaking deterioration of a loved one, it is still impossible to name the slow killer with absolute certainty. Only after the patient has died and an autopsy is done can the core of the brain be examined for the telltale dead nerve cells...
...flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief problem was "to lie down without getting hurt. I started by kneeling and then did the difficult next...
After two Soviet-made limpet bombs exploded last March in the women's toilet of Johannesburg's police headquarters, police arrested Marion Sparg, 28, a former reporter for the Johannesburg Sunday Times. She confessed to the bombing, which miraculously killed no one, and to planting explosive devices in two other police stations...
...tissue issue arose last week, when some dormitory residents complained the toilet paper was too rough and demanded a better product...
...toilet paper tug-of-war at the Ames campus, about 30 miles north of Des Moines, has gotten national attention, and Collier said in a telephone interview that her phone hadn't stopped ringing since the story broke...