Word: looted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power and a clear field to work unhampered. The facts were, said he, that the Congo is near bankruptcy and total administrative collapse. ''Some [army] units have not got any pay for two months, and they have no food, with the result that they disobey orders and loot from the civilian population." The Congolese army in Kasai province was running wild, "engaged in slaughter not only of combatants but also of defenseless civilians." Some victims "were deliberately killed simply on the ground that they were Balubas," Hammarskjold said. "Should it be supposed that the duty of the United...
...important river port of Matadi, Ben Omar found that all but five of its 1,600 Europeans had fled. The Congolese garrison had successfully held the town against a Belgian attack; yet not a shot was fired as the Moroccans moved in. Several truckloads of mutineers were hauling off loot from European homes; at Ben Omar's command, they sheepishly returned the stolen goods to the sacked houses...
...night that the mobs came to loot her husband's house. When they saw her, they paused long enough to lead her gently out of harm's way, remembering that she at least was innocent as well as royal, though married to the man they called El Charicero-the Sausage-Maker...
After a year and a half of dipping into his TV loot, Teddy had taken a look at his thinning bankroll and decided he needed a job. He asked to become a census taker. On the standard exam, he did well on the language sections, but Teddy was a flop when it came to map reading, i.e., showing that he could stay within his assigned area, spot landmarks, figure the distance to the city limits, etc. The Census Bureau decided that there was no sense in hiring a man who might get lost before he got out of town. "This...
...Long Song. One day last August, Morrison was picked up for burglary, and the cops who locked him up were not in his tidy plan of loot and split. Faced with a stiff sentence, he decided to sing. Last week the good Chicago cops were rounding up the bad ones ; all over town charges of police crime bubbled up. In the burgeoning scandal, 17 policemen were arrested on criminal charges, and upwards of 130 (of a police force of 11,200) were haled into special offices in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel to take lie-detector tests. The total...