Word: looted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should the Axis powers attack this Hemisphere? "This is the same dangerous . . . wishful thinking which has destroyed ... so many conquered peoples. . . . The vast resources and wealth of this Hemisphere constitute the most tempting loot in all the world...
...exploits are legendary. It is said that he once entered the headquarters of a robber chief, sat down and simply glared at the chief until he bowed, apologized and handed the loot to Toyama, who returned it to the owners. He made a fortune by borrowing huge sums and then paid his debts by selling coal mines he had acquired by political wangling-all to prove how easy it was to acquire riches. He then retired to poverty and his small wooden house...
...shrouded factories in far Bohemia, the new centre of German arms production, there are being forged weapons of another spring's Blitzkrieg .... The entire economic effort of at least 120,000,000 in the heart of Europe is directed into the channels of the Nazi war industry. German loot has been on a gigantic scale. . . . The Nazis are exerting 30% more energy than Britain on their war output. ... In the war's second winter we still have three-quarters of a million workers we cannot find use for. . . . Let every man in Britain ask himself whenever he feels...
...QUICKLY FORGOTTEN DENMARK, NORWAY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM. CERTAINLY GERMANY WOULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDING IRISH PORTS ON GROUND OF USEFULNESS BUT WHEN HAS GERMANY EVER FELT NEED FOR JUSTIFYING HER GRABS EXCEPT WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK? . . . SHE TAKES WHAT SHE WANTS WITH NO INTENTION OF RETURNING THE LOOT IF SHE IS VICTOR WHEN HOSTILITIES CEASE. IRELAND WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM BRITAIN IN LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES, AS MR. BRENNAN AND HIS GOVERNMENT WELL KNOW. . . . IF AS RESULT OF IRELAND'S STAND BRITAIN IS OVERCOME BY SUBMARINE AND SEA BOMBING ATTACKS OF NAZIS, EIRE WILL SEE HOW GRATEFUL THE NAZIS...
...Syracuse, N. Y. police discovered that Wayman G. Woody invited his friends to dinner, left his wife to entertain them, stole out to loot their homes...