staff-room

• “According to a local newspaper account, a teacher from a village middle school said officials burst unannounced into the school at around 3pm one afternoon and started sifting through the ashtray and bins in the staff-room.”

  Boing Boing

• “So these notes were just descriptive: bizarre exchanges with customers, staff-room scenes, the service corridors.”

  Catherine O'Flynn - An interview with author

• “If anyone is serious about rooting you out, they will now mount a trans-national investigation by forming a “staff-room squad” whose sole purpose is to define who reacts in which way to certain key phrases from or about The Book.”

  Will The Real Inspector Gadget Please Stand Up! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “Major hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo have been paralyzed by an eight-week strike by doctors and nurses, and teachers belonging to the militant Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) have engaged in "staff-room sit-ins" to press for large pay-hikes.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “ On Monday, on her return to school, the gossip and speculation in the staff-room proved to be even worse thanSophie had feared.”

  Mistress On Demand

• “Those dismissed included teachers who did not participate in the strikes that began last week, but took part in staff-room sit-ins,”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “Furious that hordes of lower-school kids were running for cover across the hallowed patch of grass outside the staff-room window, our headmaster, Mr. Charles, came outside to reprimand the entire playground.”

  Simon & Schuster: Turning Thirty

• “Finally they were left in the bare staff-room, looking at the debris of blankets and muddle left from the chaos.”

  Bush Doctor's Bride

• “The headmistress also came into the staff-room for the coffee.”

  Laurels are Poison

• “‘Come into the staff-room and tell me, while I tidy my hair.’”

  Laurels are Poison

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