Word: looting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jose Greco Dancers. The stars, of course, are just an added attraction, gold-horned Judas goats who lure the herds of tourists to the gaming tables. "We're just the highest-paid shills in history," says Tallulah Bankhead. "Why do we do it? Dahling, for the loot, of course...
Gentleman's Agreement. In Los Angeles, after forcing Grocery Clerk George Albert to hand over $1,263.61 in a paper bag, a gunman eyed his loot, remarked: "It don't look like a lot, but you can report it as $10,000. If they catch me, I'll confess to that sum. Are you happy...
...conquerors they make an unpretty lot. They rape and loot, lash naked women to tanks, destroy works of art, try to outdo their late conquerors. But like all occupiers, they soon find that their lives have been bound up with those of the occupied. Two hussars, Sanders and Saint-Anne, finally surrender unconditionally to a handsome, sensual girl named Rita. Sanders had met her in what was then a conventional way: he raped her. Sanders becomes Author Nimier's prototype of the fundamentally good Frenchman gone wrong. He is cynical, bitter, confused; he is also a great reader...
While digging for the new posts after games, Sugrue has unearthed buttons, pins, broken eye glasses, and even occasional coins. The majority of the valuable loot-dropped in the scuffles is picked up by Cambridge street arabs who scavenge the field around the end zones after the Saturday afternoon games...
...back of an old man, had been captured in Czechoslovakia and shipped to a Soviet camp. In 1949, a Russian officer and woman interpreter came to question him: "They asked me whether I had ever passed through a certain village and whether I had been ordered to burn or loot. I said no. They put me into a cell with . . . just room to stand and said, 'If you don't confess, we will leave you here until your legs fall...