Word: looted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buying, in which a parade of witnesses relate their roles in the affair. This woe fully static device comes down to describing the play that isn't there. Along the way, Shyre and Hersey plunk paper bullets into pre-perforated targets-the jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that "some day, I might achieve an IQ of over...
...damage award, or Ben Bella the lost money, is doubtful. But the banker's release pleased the Swiss banking community. After all, if the impression got around that the legendary Swiss sock was developing holes, the new and old rich might be tempted to start taking their loot elsewhere...
...hope that the Cabots and Lowells Will mention the matter to God. wrote Poet Ogden Nash, 62, moved to versify in the Boston Globe as part of a plea to crooks to return at least the family photos from the $7,000 worth of loot stolen from his car in Boston...
...leaders' pleas had no effect as a hooting, looting mood dominated the streets. A woman leaned against a shoe store, tried to trade a bag of shoes she had pilfered for more desirable loot that others carried. Two women dragged large boxes behind them. Said one to the other: "Let's get home before this stuff gets broken." The area of narrow three-story tenements was strewn with broken glass, nude mannequins, disabled cars, police and fire vehicles...
...rest of the Nationals, while the National-style pennant race was in the American League. The Yankees were disappearing all right-in third place, six games behind. All the kicking and gouging was going on between Chicago and Baltimore, two teams the experts figured to get their World Series loot courtesy of the commissioner's office. But Hank Bauer's surprisingly muscular Orioles had been giving the league fits all season. Now surprise again. Halfway through the week, Al Lopez' White Sox were in first place-one-half game ahead going into an eight-game home...