Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved again that on home territory he knows very well what the Communists are up to. Visiting Hyderabad's Communist-dominated Warangal district, he spoke under great flower-draped portraits of himself and Gandhi, telling cheering crowds that the Communists "are a party of murder, arson and loot, not of progress." Nehru plainly considered Hyderabad a crucial test in schooling his people in democracy...
...family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...
After more than two weeks of fruitless investigation, Cambridge police have not uncovered a single trace of $1,824 worth of coats and accessories stolen from three House dining halls the night of the Brown game. The police doubt that they will discover the loot, unless by chance the thieves attempt to do some pawning...
Proceeds from the auction will be given to the student Grant-In-Aid fund, chairman Elizabeth Tucker '52 has announced. All absent-minded students have been reminded to look over the loot to claim their articles before sales begin...
Police charge that McLeod would collect a stock of small items in various thefts and then transport the lot to New York in a car where it was liquidated by pawning. About $1,000 of an estimated $20,000 loot has been recovered...