Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steven to be as creative as he wanted to be. We were bohemians growing up in suburbia. And everything was centered on Steven. When he was babysitting for us he'd resort to creative torture. One time he came into the bedroom with his face wrapped in toilet paper like a mummy. He peeled off the paper layer by layer and threw it at us. He was a delight, but a terror. And we kept coming back for more...
...would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys. ed. Once he threw a cherry bomb between my legs in the school toilet. I got up before it exploded. This was somebody I feared. He was my nemesis; I dreamed about him. Then I figured, if you can't beat him, try to get him to join you. So I said to him, "I'm making this movie about fighting the Nazis...
...surprise Castro, so Traugott added, "O.K., a little bit when you have the gun and the grenade there. Take it away." Once Traugott entered the lavatory just after Castro's companion, who called himself "Said," came out. Says Traugott: "He forgot his gun on the top of the toilet. Even if I tried to grab it and do something, it would have been total chaos, lots of people would have been killed. I just walked out and into the cockpit and said, 'Come here, will you? You left something in there.' You should have heard them laugh." In Beirut, Traugott...
...recent years, Cabot House, the oldest of the Quad Houses, has been plagued by leaky roofs, sewerage problems, and faulty electrical systems The problems came to a head last October when a second floor toilet backed-up and exploded, flooding two floors in Briggs Hall
...entries came in from Maine and Montana, Bangladesh and Britain, Italy and Iran, South Africa and Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia. There were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose...