Word: looted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darkened Doorstep. In Miami, Mrs. Lois Brown turned husband Albert in to the police for burglary, explained that he had repeatedly ignored her rule against bringing his stolen loot into their home...
...President's share, his Agriculture Minister, holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy, explained to a friend: "Arbenz gave his Communist pals 10,000 quetzales apiece before he quit, but he did not even tell us he was going to resign." Arbenz probably took most of the loot into the Mexican embassy. Now his problem is to get away with it. Even if he gets a safe-conduct out of the country, the new government, under the rules of asylum, could search his baggage and seize any boodle. But a diplomatic cut of the loot to the right hands might...
...from Bride & Groom, from This Is Your Life. Frenetic Bert Parks tries to make all these elements stick together by bringing onstage a devoted couple and then surrounding them with assorted friends and relatives who give the lowdown on the romance and answer quiz questions to help pile up loot for the lovebirds...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
Buried Treasure. In Paris, police arrested Thief Roger Lhomel, shipped him off to the hospital when he announced that he had swallowed his loot: a gold bracelet, a wedding ring, a gold watch band, a religious medal, a three-inch wooden crucifix...