Word: looted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What finally stopped the robbers was the rise of water in the sewage system, the result of heavy late-weekend rains. Otherwise, they might have doubled or trebled their loot. Said one policeman: "If it hadn't rained, God knows how much more they would have taken...
Amin, 48, long ago eliminated any semblance of freedom in Uganda. Parliament was abolished (he rules by decree and was recently named President for Life), the judiciary and civil service were completely purged, and the military was given extraordinary powers of arrest and summary execution. Soldiers frequently loot shops, commandeer cars and extort money from civilians...
...bank vault. Having met a notorious gentleman thief (Michael Caine) during a prison stretch, they filch the plans for his next job and try to beat him to it. Their unlikely accomplices: a radical newspaper editor (Diane Keaton) and her band of ragged reformers, who want to use the loot to set up a milk fund for New York City's poor...
...sharpie whose smart schemes always collapse in chaos. These two hook up to defraud a lubricious Mormon-a bit of bunko that helps keep the Dirtwater Fox a few steps ahead of some bad guys who are giving him heated chase. It seems that he made off with their loot from a bank job, only the Duchess swiped it from him, mixing it in by mistake with the baggage of her Mormon mark, who ... oh, well. Let it go at that...
...produced great riches for some but, until the perfection of the Yale lock in 1865, there was no effective way of protecting such wealth. In 1864 alone, the Boston police reported that nearly a million dollars had been stolen. Professional detectives emerged who would attempt to recover the loot in exchange for a fee, usually about 10% of the proceeds...