Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...task . . . imposed upon him by the Senate, he returned to his plow ... The first dictator of our times was Lenin. He went to Russia in 1917 [from exile in Switzerland] ... He called to the Russian armies ... to drop their rifles, fraternize with the Germans, and run home "to loot the loot," and then he seized power from the provisional government . . . After that, Lenin concluded peace with Germany and Austria ... In other words, he betrayed his country and her allies. . . Cincinnatus saved Rome. Lenin sold Russia...
...Loot piled up in Radcliffe "lost and found" closets during the past two years will pass over the auction counter at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Cabot Hall game room...
...Yale Station Post Office has called for the Yale students who stole $11.20 in stamps from a stamp machine to return the loot. They were reminded that the post office superintendent will have to pay the deficit out of his own pocket if the stamps are not returned...
...About the Sergeant." Sitting on the roadside and munching their cold rations, the G.I.s discussed the battle. Some meager loot-a few Russian Tommy guns and occasional pistols-was the object of interest. Three G.I.s in a jeep posed grandly for a Signal Corps photographer, with a North Korean flag taken from a fallen enemy. But G.I.s had found, in the pockets of dead Korean Reds, all too many reminders that the Reds, for their part, had looted the American dead. One G.I. said wryly: "Every time I hit one of those bastards, I get a fresh package of Lucky...
...package, took out a Reising submachine gun, and ambled into a branch of the First National Bank of Portland. He froze the bank's employees in their places by pumping four shots into the ceiling, forced a typist to stuff $9,716 into a paper bag, grabbed the loot and rushed from the bank toward a Ford truck...