Word: looted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick-witted General Lister then ordered his troops to fill pockets and bags with the precious loot and to carry it across the French border to the Loyalist Consulate at Perpignan. Three trucks were thus emptied. No time remained, however, and the other six were dynamited...
...whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow his troops to loot the Chinese countryside over which they maneuvered...
...whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
...have never had an accident, loading 350 bars on each truck and making one trip per day, he can complete the job in about five months, starting this week. Two Coast Guardsmen will ride on each truck but hold-ups are not anticipated: bar silver makes bulky loot, hard to dispose...
Shipping was tied up. all transportation services stopped, refuse and litter piled up on Kingston's streets. Armed only with stones, angry mobs forced Chinese grocers to close their shops, shut down the city's electric light plants, intercepted food vans and distributed the loot to their own hungry, underfed supporters...