Word: trashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point he was opening the screen door and coming in and saying 'I have to talk to you.' It was the same man. His attitude was 'We don't want you here.' He commented that he had been shot by a black once. Then he started going into 'black trash' and so on and so forth. He let me know that if I decided to stay there, I would have to look forward to whatever happened and he would not be responsible. He said some of the neighbors had had a discussion about it, and in essence, if I stayed...
Survivor Garry Priest, 23, of Northglenn, Colo., said those who got out of the plane saw what "looked like a war zone. Bodies, trash, magazines, luggage and pieces of bodies littered the area. It was the worst thing I've ever seen...
...Bill Nunn) keeps the block pulsing to the rap song, Fight the Power, that bleats from his boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem start fighting about the loud music; the cops arrive and, in the struggle, kill Raheem; Mookie throws a trash can through his employer's window; the place goes up in a puff of black rage...
...buildings have been reduced to rubble as thieves cart away everything of value: bricks, aluminum siding, copper wire, even heavy cast-iron manhole covers from the potholed streets to be sold for scrap. The housing authority complains that aluminum downspouts are swiped from its buildings within hours of installation. Trash-strewn vacant lots along the river stand in stark contrast to the gleaming Gateway Arch of St. Louis, in plain sight less than a mile away across the river...
...city hall rest rooms. The city cannot even afford new bulbs for its traffic lights. Parking meters work, but nobody feeds them because there is no money to hire meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer accepts jobs in East St. Louis because customers there...