Word: ransack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brother's cut-rate encyclopedia, suspiciously slim volumes that I would ransack for sixth-grade book report roughage, featured an innovative learning tool under the entry on the Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity...
...public content to ignore its government can take heart that its institutions are sturdy and forgiving: the presidency forgave a reckless President, the Congress survived a bout of cannibalism, the Constitution warded off anyone who tried to ransack it for any reason. It was tempting to blame the clanking 18th century impeachment mechanisms for dragging out the investigation for months after the public had made up its mind; yet that stately pace served the purpose of forcing both sides to confront the evidence, honor the process, hear each other out. It turns out the Constitution wasn't built for speed...
Fresh from the shower, ransack roommate's closet for clothes worthy of a Wellesley girl. Luckily, said roommate once appeared on "The Grind." Emerge with: tube top, tight black pants and stilettos...
After several relatively peaceful months,tensions on campus erupt once again in April. Onthe 18th, anti-war demonstrators in Boston marchto Cambridge and ransack the CFIA building,breaking windows and causing $20,000 to $25,000 indamages. Fifty riot-equipped police use tear gasand sweep the Square in order to end thedisturbance...
...People's Coalition for Peace and Justice antiwar demonstration turns into a near-riot. About 125 people, only a few of them Harvard students, ransack the Center for International Affairs, inflicting $20,000 to $25,000 in damages before police and firement disperse them and clear Harvard Squre with tear...