Word: ransacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secured garage, which is used by graduate students living in the Peabody Terrace complex, has been plagued by a group of "kids" who trespass and then ransack parked cars, Johnson said...
...projects just keep on coming, as studios ransack America's collective subliterate unconscious for new hits from old shows: American Gladiators (with Cliffhanger's Renny Harlin producing); Bewitched (Penny Marshall); The Brady Bunch; F Troop; Gentle Ben; Gilligan's Island; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; The Green Hornet; Hawaii Five-0; Hogan's Heroes (from writer- producer John Hughes); The Invaders; Lost in Space; My Favorite Martian; The Rifleman; The Saint and many, many more...
Well, he can't. U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen last week issued an injunction reaffirming a February restraining order that forbade the police to conduct sweeps of public-housing projects during which they searched apartments without obtaining warrants. The judge in March modified the order to allow cops to ransack without warning a building's "common areas" (lobbies, hallways, stairwells), and it was such a "vertical patrol" of the Stateway Gardens complex that Ghost joined. But Judge Andersen agreed with an American Civil Liberties Union complaint that warrantless searches of individual apartments violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which...