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...were on a hiking trip in the Cascade Mountains near Chelan, Wa., reportedly tried to dispose of toilet paper by burning it in the wooded area on June 27. Because of the dry spell plaguing the West coast this summer, the men's action ignited a blaze that took three days and about $500,000 to contain, said Wenahatchee National Forest spokeswoman Marti J. Ames...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Med School Grads Caused Forest Fire | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...hikers reportedly told fire investigators on the scene that they had read experienced woodsmen always burned their toilet tissue. "It wasn't the thing to do," Ames said...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Med School Grads Caused Forest Fire | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...three doors. Hey, I thought, I am right on the mark! Three bedrooms and a single for this earlybird. I slowly opened the first door, and in place of my desk, a sink, instead of a dresser, a tub, and alas, in the place of my bed, a toilet. It then dawned on me that Harvard had cheated me of my dream single...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys. ed. Once he threw a cherry bomb between my legs in the school toilet. I got up before it exploded. This was somebody I feared. He was my nemesis; I dreamed about him. Then I figured, if you can't beat him, try to get him to join you. So I said to him, "I'm making this movie about fighting the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...surprise Castro, so Traugott added, "O.K., a little bit when you have the gun and the grenade there. Take it away." Once Traugott entered the lavatory just after Castro's companion, who called himself "Said," came out. Says Traugott: "He forgot his gun on the top of the toilet. Even if I tried to grab it and do something, it would have been total chaos, lots of people would have been killed. I just walked out and into the cockpit and said, 'Come here, will you? You left something in there.' You should have heard them laugh." In Beirut, Traugott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roach Races and Russian Roulette * | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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