Word: looted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything from trading stamps to a pet monkey. So imagine everyone's surprise when an unmarried 15-year-old girl won that race early one January 1. She apparently turned down all the publicity-including the traditional front page picture-and the first married mother walked off with the loot, and presumably the baby. The rules were more specific the next year...
...fragile; the luxury of having doors opened, packages carried, cigarettes lighted, chairs pulled out for us; the pleasure of being able to cry openly when we feel like it; the joy of giving everything of ourselves to the men we love; and (sometimes) the delight of receiving great loot like diamond necklaces, ruby bracelets and mink coats...
According to the FBI, Valeri says that Fleisher was present when all five suspects planned the robbery and split the loot...
Boston Police Commissioner Edmund McNamara immediately raised the possibility of a "damned radical, damned revolutionary" plot involving more than the five suspects. Others questioned the greater-conspiracy theory, but suggested that three of the bank robbers were bent on using the loot to finance their radical cause. Though novel in the U.S. today, the idea is not entirely new. Quebec separatist terrorists have long been suspected of robbing Montreal banks in order to support their movement. Some South American revolutionaries have tried similar capers. But if the plot theory is correct, it could represent a basic departure in radical tactics...
Most of the 100 people present remained bystanders or tried to persuade the others not to trash or loot. About 25 seemed to want a confrontation...