Word: looted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double Switch. In Dallas, a thief stole $290 from work clothes in a locker room, changed into a pair of stolen trousers, left the loot in his discarded pants...
...quibbling research,* immortalize the moment in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first recorded European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. Balboa's discovery led to the conquest of Peru, and by 1535 the Spaniards were feverishly carting the gold and silver loot of the luckless Incas over Panama's Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path, was completing his rediscovery of Panama's historic routes with a rugged...
...Chester; Filmakers) is a crime-doesn't-pay movie that consists of one long chase complicated by another. The first begins with a smash-bang crash-out of six convicts from prison. The second begins soon after, when their wounded leader promises them a share of the loot he has hidden away if they do not abandon him. While the crooks pursue the hidden loot, the police pursue the crooks...
Tattletale Grey. In Baltimore, George W. Thomas and Oscar Purdie were arrested for robbing the Empire Laundry of $400 worth of shirts, sheets and bedspreads when they brought part of their loot back to the Empire for laundering...
...Angeles, officials of the Amateur Athletic Union studied reports that pole-vaulting Parson Bob Richards had received a Mercury and other gifts on the television program This Is Your Life, solemnly announced that the loot was legally presented not to Pole-Vaulter Richards, but to Parson Richards' First Brethren church "in the interests of furthering its service." His amateur status still intact, the Rev. Richards hopped 15 ft. 3¾ into the air at the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus Games, won the pole vault and set a new meet record...