Word: toileting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...every cop no matter how hideous the episode, he does no favor for the 99% of cops who don't shoot first and ask questions later. Giuliani does know how to behave better. When Haitian immigrant Abner Louima was sodomized by a police officer with the handle of a toilet plunger in 1997, Giuliani expressed shock at the brutality and called for a task force to review police-community issues. But that was in the midst of his re-election campaign, and since then his reaction to charges of police brutality has grown more strident. The irony is that police...
...that she is about to make history. "You don't get to this position by saying, 'I'm different and I'm special, so therefore I deserve to be the C.O.,'" she says. In fact, the only change her presence required was to remove the spring-loaded, always-up toilet seat in her cabin's head. The Navy insists that McGrath is under no special scrutiny because of her gender. In fact, she will relinquish her command of the ship a month before the mission ends, simply because the Navy's unrelenting personnel cycle demands...
...bureau's guarantee of total confidentiality. Like draft-card burners from the 1960s, some privacy-loving Americans have even vowed to pay the government's $100 penalty for nonfiling rather than satisfy Uncle Sam's Big Brotherish curiosity about such matters as whether their home has a working flush toilet...
...have complete plumbing facilities in this house, apartment or mobile home; that is, 1) hot and cold running water, 2) a flush toilet and 3) a bathtub or shower...
...have a shower and running water. The toilet is a problem, though. Designed to flush, it sometimes doesn't, owing to an overly lavish use of tissue, which I don't wish to go into at this time. Suffice it to say the person behind the clogs is not myself or my child, and I've had several long talks with her about...