Word: loot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come Again. In Tokyo, a robber stripped Tadashichiro Tamura of his clothing and money, but accepted a stirrup cup and ultimately staggered out leaving behind his own jacket, his shoes, and the loot...
...False Representative." In 1946, Sadie claims, she was nearly ruined by a magazine article which reported that her Brooklyn apartment was jampacked with program loot, and that she netted an average $35 a week in prize money. For six months, she moans, she couldn't get on a single program: "What a noive to say I make thoity-five dollars! I never won a refrigerator in all my living life. They gimme a false representative...
Recently the Greek government deposited in Kalavryta's bank 230 million drachmas (about $250,000). Also in the town was a heavy shipment of U.S. food parcels. The Communist guerrillas, from their spies, heard about this loot...
Among the Communists were several armed, bloodthirsty women. Two of them entered the house of Eugenia Fotinopou-lou, who was six months pregnant. Her husband had been impressed into the work crews who were loading loot into rebel trucks. When the guerrilla women heard that Fotinopoulou had been "taken away," they decided that he was a "fascist" and they fired four shots into Eugenia's swollen belly. Fotinopoulou came back from his labors for the enemy to find his wife dying. "This happened to me," he said, "just as life was beginning to smile...
Last week, the conquerors were making the most of this loot-on-loan. One day the attendance at the National Gallery was 11,895. Lecturers took whole platoons of sightseers through, speaking in sibilant whispers, and on the rim of every cluster gallerygoers jostled to see & hear. But no one could take in everything-the 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, five Botticellis, the Bruegels, Vermeers, three Raphaels, five Jan van Eycks, five Titians, three Watteaus, the Holbeins, Diirers, Hals and the Velasquez...