Word: bathroom
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Right after New Year 1974, Solzhenitsyn's 13-year-old stepson visited our apartment, disappeared into the bathroom and returned with a book that had been concealed under his clothing: The Gulag Archipelago. The book was a shattering experience, evoking a somber world of gray camps surrounded by barbed wire, investigators' offices and torture chambers, icy mines in Kolyma and Norilsk...
Best of all was the juvenile "Can I go to the bathroom?" excuse, which had worked so well to extricate onesself from the most unpleasant experiences of kindergarten. A men's room was located within the hall, and young men would try to avoid paying for a ticket by arguing that they "just wanted to use the men's room...
...only allowed to see the guesthouse -- 8,200 sq. ft. -- which the real estate agent thought was unoccupied. Instead, we found toddlers downstairs with a nanny and, upstairs, a freshly unmade bed with a large gun tossed casually in the middle. ("This is the bedroom; this is the bathroom; this is the gun.") If CenTrust's mortgage on this property becomes an asset of the Resolution Trust Company, the agency formed by Congress to liquidate failed S&Ls, the RTC should recoup at least a good portion of the loan...
...blame the author of a Complete Preparation for the MCAT who suggests a 36 week preparation period for the exam. This guy probably prepares several hours to go to the bathroom...
...graduate entrance exams. After taking the test, many pre-meds have to be be rushed to local emergency units and reassured that real doctors do not have to diagram electrical circuits. (Other pre-meds go on to take the LSATs and GREs before breaking to go to the bathroom, as part of the Irongrubber Triathalon. The winner never...