"The Longest Yard," "The Dirty Dozen" and all 30 installments of "Major League" are ransacked for "The Replacements".
Practically every post-war decade of the 20th century has been ransacked for patterns, shapes and hairstyles.
Matthew Stafford (DET) vs. Washington – The Redskins' problematic secondary has been ransacked for 72 fantasy points this season, which is tops in the league.
In contrast to the present, when the National Guard and the Reserves are ransacked for replacements for Iraq, both institutions were safe havens during the Vietnam era.
"The forests are ransacked for the brightest foliage, branches of the pine, cedar, and holly are laboriously collected," he noted approvingly, "and the work of beautifying the quarters continue[s] as long as material can be procured".
Accordingly, alarmed educators closed schools; airlines canceled hundreds of flights; AT&T in New Jersey told 19,000 employees to stay home; grocery store shelves were ransacked for milk and bread lest marooned apartment dwellers starve.
Books that take you places, and books you can steal from — like Norman Maclean's memoir, "A River Runs Through It," whose opening sentence (about religion and fly-fishing) has been ransacked for the benefit of that first paragraph.
In an election year rife with melodramatic intrigue, the plays were ransacked for character analogies, political wisdom and memorable lines reminding us of a time when rhetoric was still able to soar.
They looked on passively as Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk, republican Turkey's founder) and his troops routed the Greeks from Anatolia and reoccupied Smyrna, bent on revenge for Greek atrocities in the city and further east.The port was ransacked and looted for days.
The headquarters of Compaore's Congress for Democracy and Progress CDPpartyrty was ransacked in the evening.
