Word: looted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Navy, which insisted that its only interest was in training divers and locating the exact site of the wreck, the Argylls were at it again in Tobermory Bay. The time had come, the eleventh Duke decided recently, to make "a really serious attempt" at the treasure. Even if loot eludes him, the Duke hopes to make expenses selling movie and feature story rights to the search. "The world is too drab," he says. "I think we could all do with a little romance...
...Shadow of Tragedy." "Barbarian neighbor!" barked the Indian press, charging Pakistan with a plot of annihilation against Hindus. Angry Pakistan headlines bayed: "Over 10,000 [Moslems] killed-harrowing tales of murder, arson and loot...
Rummaging petulantly through a pile of loot, the once-polite pair cast aside a handful of unsuitable rings and brooches. "Junk," they murmured, then left with 12 million francs' worth of jewelry. As a parting insult to their uncooperative hostess, they drove...
...from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers started them on an easier way to easy money: they introduced them to two Russian officers in civilian clothes...
...murder victim. You see plenty of Paris in the daytime from the top of the Eiffel tower; now you see fully as much of it at night, as the camera and Maigret follow Radek on a tour of all the local hotspots while he generously unloads his ill-gotten loot. The movie's best scene takes place in one of these lush Pigalle bistros, as a dozen ambulant violinsts toy with Radek's ambivalent emotions...