Word: looted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Londoners swathed their faces in "smog masks" of gauze, scarves or handkerchiefs. For a time, in fact, they looked somewhat like bandits fleeing the bobbies. Some were doing precisely that. Smash-and-grab robbers used the occasion to carry off thousands of pounds worth of loot from London's jewelers and banks. Scotland Yard's crack Flying Squad, reduced to a crawl, was virtually powerless to stop them...
...margin was surprisingly close: Hoffa's side won the election by 3,870 votes to 3,274Cohen himself is not yet home free. Last week he and five others appeared in a Philadelphia court to plead not guilty to a three-year-old charge that they conspired to loot the union treasury of about $100,000. Next month, Cohen is up for reelection. Presumably he has the muscle to win again...
...dictator, spends his time in Madrid hanging around nightclubs and cracking up fancy sports cars. His older brother Ramfis, 33. who ruled the country for six months after his father's assassination, is a more serious type, with an ulcer. His major occupation these days is managing the loot the Trujillos carried with them when they took it on the lam from their tiny Caribbean fief...
...objection to a stamp that would show a green wreath hanging from a white suburban door, but the block of white would foul up every color-sensitized Mark II Facer-Canceler in the country. Nor did the committee have artistic reservations about a cluster of pajamaed tots ogling their loot spread out under a Christmas tree; the design simply had too much detail for reproduction. Finally a Post Office illustrator offered the winning design-a wreath adorned by a red bow, and some amateurish lettering in Olde Englishe. It was calculated blah, and it will be reproduced 500 million times...
...should be beautiful, he says. Art is a personal thing, he says as we expected him to say; you have to feel it. It has to move walls. Art has to be decorative. That leaves Picasso out. And besides, Picasso has all the loot. He should disperse his money to struggling young artists. Give his all for art. Museums are dead. And they are closed most of the time. They waste their "dough" on restorations. Why should anything be restored? The artist is helpless - "a Gothic man in the Atomic Age." The art academy is an evil institution. Boston...