Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, can openers in their pockets, "carrying books and trying to look like graduate students." Finally, late one night they eluded the Yard Cop ("a frosty character who didn't even pack a rod"), jimmied open a cellar window, went in and blew the safe, escaping undetected with the loot--"some $100,000 worth...
...Dinner. The theft was easily reconstructed. Crowe had stayed late at the bank on Friday the week before, had opened the vault and taken out $193,660 in small bills, five U.S. $100,000 Treasury bonds, and $190,000 in bonds of smaller denominations. He put his loot in a brown handbag, took the ferry to Staten Island, calmly tossed his treasure into the family Buick, and went off to meet Mrs. Crowe for dinner at a Staten Island country club...
...next month; $1,917 in January. The third time, a customer was shot in the hip when the gun went off in a nervous bank-robber's hand. Each time the robbers were captured and speedily bustled off to prison; the police recovered $2,817 of the loot, and insurance made up the rest-but the stickups made a deep impression on the bankers...
...Cadillac convertible to make himself inconspicuous while working, settled down in a modest apartment to keep himself inconspicuous off the job. He studied the movements of his prey by reading society pages, travel news, and Hollywood gossip columns. He soon had a king's ransom in loot...
...snowy Vermion Mountains a few miles away, the Markos guerrillas heard of the festival. Through the passes mule trains began to move, some carrying ammunition and food, others empty and ready for loot. Supported by heavy machine guns, bazookas and mortars, 3,000 rebels attacked in foggy darkness. Before morning Naousa was in Communist hands...