Word: looted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolt was forming near Cap-Haitien, under an ambitious politico named Guillaume Sam. Admiral William B. Caperton, U.S.N., on the U.S.S. Washington, met Sam unofficially and offered him tacit support, urgently warning Sam not to "loot or burn down the cities." But once in office, Sam balked at signing a treaty for U.S. occupation of Haiti. Instead, he jailed and massacred 167 suspected revolutionaries-then panicked and fled for asylum to the French legation. A raging mob broke into the building, found Sam hiding under a bed, dragged him out, literally tore him limb from limb, and paraded through Port...
...family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army authorities tracked down the thieves and most of the treasure, found a pile of the missing jewels in a locker in Chicago's Illinois Central Station...
...Work. In St. Charles, Mo., Orval Bohlander and Ruth Pence were sentenced to 60 days in jail after they admitted that they had stolen some $30 worth of merchandise from four stores in one morning, returned the same afternoon to get cash refunds for their loot...
...predominant fault of the bad English encountered today is not the crude vulgarism of the untaught but the blithe irresponsibility of the taught. The language is no longer regarded as a common treasure to be hoarded and protected as far as possible. Rather, it is loot . . . to be played with, squandered, plastered on for one's adornment. Literary words imperfectly grasped, meanings assumed from bare inspection, monsters spawned for a trivial cause-these are but a few of the signs of squandering . . . The advertiser bids you 'slip your feet into these easygoing leisuals and breathe a sigh...
Latest in the How To series (How To Win Friends, How To Be Happy Though Drafted, etc.) the film is singularly uninstructive. Leggy Lauren Bacall is the only prospector of a mercenary trio to strike matrimonial pay-dirt. Less fortunate, Misses Monroe and Betty Grable trade loot for love and their gold rush fails...