Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FRESHMAN YEAR, a few friends and I ventured out from our safe rooms in Holworthy over to Thayer on what would become the most important mission of our young Harvard careers: to steal all the toilet paper from the bathrooms in our rival dorm...
...purpose was two-ply. First, we wanted to see what our colleagues in Thayer would do without any toilet paper in their bathrooms until Monday morning--when toilet paper hours began again in the North Yard. Second, and more important, we needed the toilet paper...
...private bathrooms in Holworthy, getting toilet paper meant waking up during toilet paper hours--they were about 3:30 to 3:35 p.m., as I remember--walking across the Yard to Mower and bargaining with a man who spoke little English to get a single roll...
...want more, bring your roommates," he told me, suggesting that I should keep my own personal stock. I briefly thought about trading my toilet paper for the bottom bunk, but when my roommates started using comic books, I backed down...
...Joint Chiefs and execution by commanders in the field. The President also backed the creation of a "procurement czar," an Under Secretary of Defense to oversee the purchase of new weapons systems for all service branches and ride herd on a Pentagon bureaucracy that has produced $640 toilet covers and $7,600 coffee pots. In another report to be released this week, the Packard commission charges that "all too many of our weapons systems cost too much, take to long to develop and by the time they are fielded, incorporate obsolete technology...