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Word: loot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kidnapper finally stopped Gurland at B and South streets where he demanded his driver's money. After finding that the loot was only $9, he demanded Gurland's $40 watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Still Searching for Gunman Who Kidnaped College Instructor | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Double Take. In Portsmouth, Ohio. Samuel Keaton was unable to produce for police all the loot he had stolen: some of it had been stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...centuries, native treasure hunters have searched for that cave, reasoning that the walled-up soldiers must have carried valuable loot. One of the searchers found an empty cave in Antelias valley. Near by he noticed a similar rock formation, its mouth choked with debris. He dug a narrow shaft, and found not a walled-up army lying among its treasures, but at least a few chips of man-worked flint. The chips were spotted by a kibitzing U.S. archeologist, and a Jesuit task force attacked the cave to find what manner of ancient man had lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 60,000-Year-Old Boy | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Gershwins. It made me want to write Broadway shows." The first Broadway show he wrote, Blackbirds of 1928, with songs like Diga Diga Doo' and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, made him famous. Jimmy confesses that he began to "rake in the loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Stay Contemporary | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...loot has included some $5 million and a Beverly Hills mansion complete with swimming pool. He has what one Hollywood agent calls "A fabulous ego. Every once in a while, someone ought to tell him that he is not, after all, Sibelius." Jimmy never worries that his inspiration will run dry: "When I was an office boy in Boston, I was a hep kid with a beat. I'm still a hep kid with a beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Stay Contemporary | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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