Word: looted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most had gone for the adventure. "Plenty of lolly [money] and plenty of fun," said a South African masseur who had joined Katanga's army. One adventurer nostalgically recalled a successful campaign against a U.N. supply depot. "We lived like kings on the loot we found there," he says. "A pile of corned beef and 150,000 bottles of beer...
...Kotlyar installed lipstick molds, mixed batter identical to the popular Ausma brand manufactured in Riga. Soon he persuaded Ausma officials-for a price-that competition was wasteful, and began importing the authentic recipes and lipstick tubes direct from the maker. When Kotlyar was nabbed, he had invested his lipstick loot in precious gems, gold and state bonds worth more than 1,500,000 rubles ($1,665,000). The cache of jewels found in his home, said he, was part of his wife's trousseau...
...opponent suggested that she play again, this time putting up all the drawings by her husband that she had in her house. She played and lost-and then lost again, until not only the drawings but also the house were gone. The drawings, held cheap as gambler's loot, passed from hand to hand until Art Dealer Parsons, a little more than a century later, palmed them off to the Victoria and Albert...
...banished to Valley Forge Military Academy, a seat of learning heavily fortified with boxwood hedges and Revolutionary War cannon against dangers lurking in the Pennsylvania hills. Although the school is a recognizable model for Pencey Prep, the neurosis farm in Catcher, young Salinger?who talked of grabbing the big loot as a Hollywood writer-producer?was no Holden Caulfield. Classmate Alton McCloskey, first sergeant in Corporal Salinger's B Company and now a retired milk dealer in Lock Haven, Pa., remembers crawling through the fence with Salinger after lights out to poach local beer taps, but he is sure that...
...also have been puzzled. The stolen paintings had come from as far away as Cardiff and St. Louis; all were well known, including the Louvre's famous Card Players, which alone is valued at more than $1,000,000. What could the thieves possibly do with such recognizable loot? The police saw only one answer. The Riviera thieves were apparently a new breed of felon: paintnapers, who would hold the Cezannes for ransom...