Word: looted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honduras, Australia. Geologists reported that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most gems, opals must be aged slowly in clay to permit their water to evaporate. Dried too fast, they crack and disintegrate into dust...
...proverbially good natured soldiers of the various warring Chinese Tuchuns (TIME, Sept. 6) fought lightheartedly up and down the land last week, intent as usual upon nothing but earning their pay and seizing as much loot as possible...
...pockets, and if there are profits there, that is enough for the tax gatherer. I do not say that if the pockets be full of stolen spoons one spoon should be taken as a tax on burglary. There is a valid distinction between profits and loot...
...usual stereotyped "atrocity" was enacted many times: an officer -several were Russian mercenaries -bursts into a house, orders his men to kill all but the more delectable women, recreates himself, abandons the women to his soldiers, departs with the lion's share of loot. The women, dragged to the soldiers' camps, are "staked out with ropes and pegs." Such acts -typical of every war-were given scant attention by callous humans last week...
...were to muster before me the murderer with blood-wet hands, the thief in possession of his loot, the highwayman armed with bludgeon and pistol, the firebug with his torch, the burglar with dark lantern and jimmy, and if you were to place with that assembly of rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all. I would so say because the man who attacks the foundations of his Government and thereby assails the very structure of society is the greater criminal, the more intolerable villain, for his criminality...