Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worthiness, one pledge is asked to sacrifice a dog. He refuses, and subsequently starts a campus revolt against "Hell Week" with the aid of a sympathetic professor (Paul Henreid). Those who feel that this picture exagerates initiations might visit our State University (where pledges tour the country wearing toilet seats) or one Mid Western frat, where Hell Night includes branding of the 'new brothers' with cattle irons...
...uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...
...alarm system. The windows themselves are intricately wired, and hidden wires thread through walls and partitions. No visitor is admitted to this stronghold except for a very good reason, and once a visitor is inside, he is watched and escorted continuously, even when he goes to the toilet...
...plane took off on the morning of Nov. 19 from Erding, near Munich, with supplies for the Belgrade embassy: stationery, canned food, toilet articles. Its course, laid out to avoid the Iron Curtain, was south over the Alps to Venice, eastward to Zagreb, then down the Sava River to Belgrade...
...Municipal Auditorium, munching apples, had plenty to sing about. In 23 years, C.C.A. has become the largest co-op of its kind in the U.S. It has assets of $52.2 million, 449,000 member families, and last year sold $74 million worth of merchandise-everything from tractors to toilet soap...