Word: towel
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...divorced, leaving her with an ache for a father who was so often absent when she needed him most. "Many weekends were missed, as well as prom nights, homecoming dances, soccer games, evenings of homework or just simple advice," says the Chicago marketing strategist. "I finally threw in the towel when he couldn't make it to my older sister's high school graduation because he had to be overseas." Though father and daughter wound up living just four blocks apart, for years Molly couldn't bring herself to reach out. Soon after Sept. 11, however, they began meeting...
...considered staying in my room, but I saw that my roommates were all gone and I grabbed a bathrobe and a towel, and left,” she said...
...quite a show at the CityStep ball Friday night. After drinking a 12-pack of Tequiza on the Red Line ride into Boston, Logan headed straight to the Copley Plaza bathroom, where he spent the next three hours alternately urinating in and near the paper towel dispenser, vomiting, and resting his head in a pool of his own vomit. “This event is all about bringing the Harvard community together for a great cause,” he said as he was lifted into a gurney within Mass General Hospital. He later peed on a nurse...
...bullied, cajoled and finally finessed into staying on for the duration of a bathroom visit. Five or six quick flicks then a gentle flick and you’re not stuck in the dark feeling for which toothbrush is yours with this hand while trying to keep your towel from falling into the beer-bottle filled, dust bunny-turned-buffalo and empty conditioner bottle corner with that hand...
...highest civilian honor. DIED. EDDIE FUTCH, 90, a boxing Hall of Famer who trained 20 world champions, including Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks and Trevor Berbick; in Las Vegas. Fighting legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin' Joe in the 1975 "Thrilla' in Manila" bout against Muhammad Ali. DIED. ALEXANDRE BYIDI-AWALA, 69, one of Africa's best-known authors; in Douala, Cameroon. Under the nom de plume Mongo Beti, he wrote novels and essays denouncing colonization and its effects on African societies. Beti's most...