Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loot. All the money Hamlett could produce was $885. They took it and demanded to be led to his boss. After another cuffing, Hamlett supplied the address of his employer, Used-Car Dealer Jimmy Hicks. Cook and Parks put Hamlett into his own Cadillac and drove to Hicks's home. On the way they pocketed another $1,000 they found in the glove compartment...
They burst in on Hicks, beat him until he surrendered $1,200. Then they taped up their victims' hands and mouths and announced they would take them into the country and "make you tell us" where the bulk of the loot was hidden. As they were leaving the house, the captors decided to untape the men lest they seem conspicuous. At that, Hicks and Hamlett dashed in opposite directions yelling for the police. The two sleuths fled in alarm in Hamlett's car, quickly ditched it after a narrow brush with a police...
Playing Mrs. Wilberforce, the contrast to the mob's coarseness, Katie Johnson is perfect. Offering unwanted cups of tea, forgetting umbrellas, or banging on a sink to make water flow, she frustrates the world's complexity by being innocent and gentle. Her solution to the loot problem is clear--"surely we must just send back the money...
Robert W. Newcombe, assistant vice-president of the Harvard Trust Company, meanwhile, doubted that the thieves would try to loot the Harvard Square branch of the bank...
...Panama, Juan Perón applied for a permanent-residence permit, anted up a $225 deposit (from the mountain of loot he light-fingered from Argentina's coffers before fleeing) to stand as security against his becoming a public charge...