Word: toileting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...directing me to an indoor bathroom that had been there all along. I was astonished. What was all that about the rough and ready existence of the hutongs, where daily life had barely changed in centuries? She shrugged and replied, quite unapologetically, "Would you want tour groups using your toilet every...
According to the self-proclaimed historian of the Russian bells, resident tutor Luis A. Campos ’99, students were a bit more creative when the Russian bells were originally installed in the 1930s. Using Charles R. Crane—of Crane toilet fame and the man who donated the bells to Harvard—as inspiration, Lowellians organized a simultaneous house-wide flushing to protest the ringing of the bells...
...sense of release. Tourists flock to the rock gardens of Ryoanji; I found my Zen behind a great sushi restaurant, against a stunning 12th floor view of southern Kyoto, amidst the hustle and bustle of an underground Starbucks. I refer, of course, to the delights of the sit-down toilet. Only after stumbling every morning to a porcelain bowl in the floor can you understand the genius of Western plumbing. For a month, my brother and I made daily pilgrimages to our favorite sites; they became “ours” in a sense that Nijo Castle...
...settings and characters in The Sims 2, the game play retains some of the more annoying aspects of the original. It gets tedious making sure your Sims eat breakfast and use the toilet. I'd rather watch them stargaze or hone their operating skills on the new surgical dummy. And while it's realistic to have the Sims grow old and die, as they now do, that's no fun either. But maybe that's the idea: in The Sims 2, you can live out your wildest fantasies, but you still have to pay the bills--and meet the Grim...
...thirst, and others drank their urine. The 16 guerrillas Kasumova could see, mostly Chechens in their 20s, were by now tired and tense. The ceiling beams were draped with bombs. Some were hanging so low that the taller women banged their heads on them as they went to the toilet. From the bombs came tangled wires snaking through the tight rows of children and connected to two spring-loaded detonator pedals held down by the feet of two guerrillas. If either man allowed his foot to stray, the hostages were told, the room would explode. "Bear this in mind...