Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent outside raider, who had set up a thriving bank account on library loot, was nabbed in the act later in the summer, and confronted with Shea's typewritten records on the robberies, broke down and confessed in Cambridge police headquarters...
Small World. In Milan, Italy, Pickpocket Paulo Gaudenzi got off a streetcar after stealing a wallet, took one quick look at his loot, chased the car, jumped on, thrashed his victim. In the wallet : a photo of Paulo's wife, inscribed: "To the world's most thrilling lover...
...Walter Andreas Hofer, stored the offering in the salt mine where the Allies found it. They found Hofer too, and clapped him in jail. For most of the first year of the occupation, Hofer spent his nights in the clink and his days in a Munich art dump, identifying loot. Hofer's filing-cabinet memory for paintings, and his willingness to remember, helped win freedom for him and restitution for Italy...
Government soldiers and sailors, he continued, have captured hundreds of Communist irregulars equipped with Russian field pieces and rifles. Chao declared that the Communists have pillaged the countryside of northern China, robbed the peasants of food, and shipped their loot across the border in return for weapons...
...have an uncontrollable urge to steal things, Wright has spent 15 of his 38 years in jail. Often he has stolen things he could neither use nor sell. The last time the cops caught him, after a series of Pittsburgh burglaries, they found his apartment full of hoarded, unused loot, including 40 suits, assorted jewelry, several alarm clocks and radios...