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Word: toilet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room" in the main cell-block will contain a seatless toilet, a basin, bed and two shelves. Prisoners may decorate their rooms with bedspreads, curtains, wooden toilet covers, bedside tables and plants. Each floor has a recreation room with a television set, and if Harris becomes a star prisoner, she may some day watch TV and cook in her own cellblock. There is a school on the premises, though many of the courses may not interest a former headmistress: remedial English, auto repair, IBM keypunching, hairdressing. Bedford Hills is not an oppressively grim place to serve a sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way to Treat a Lady | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

When Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Tissue Tussle | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Pantuzzi: He's been kissing ass so long, he wipes his nose with toilet paper...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Bronx Through Blue Eyes | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

...Tsars. In pre-revolutionary times "6" served as a "public house" where public women offered their services to the Tsar's officers. We used to joke that the plumbing probably hadn't been fixed since that time and that when the women left they probably took the toilet seats and hot water with them...

Author: By Ethan Burger and Frederick Schneider, S | Title: From Russia....with Ambivalence | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

Meanwhile, back in the dining hall, Horne and her cohorts are reminiscing over last weekend's roadtrip to Princeton. It seems the resourceful hoopsters held a party in one of the hotel rooms, keeping Coach Kleinfelder preoccupied while Horne snuck back and smeared her doorhandles, toilet seat, and phone with Vaseline, switched her luggage, stashed her squash racket and other belongings under the sink, telephoned the desk and switched the morning wakeup call to 6 a.m., and then waltzed back nonchalantly to the party...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: PAT HORNE | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

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