Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every freedom-loving Negro, just as myself, must have some feeling of shame and indignation about the actions of roving gangs and mobs of Harlem's Negroes who, in the name of civil rights, loot and terrorize New York City and its law-enforcement officers [July 24]. It is hardly believable that some of the city's civil rights leaders are trying to pin the tag of blame on the city's police department. What is one supposed to do when one is confronted by mobs of bloodthirsty hoodlums...
...then there were lots of unanswered questions. And no one was more interested in the answers than the Internal Revenue Service, which stood to lose some $44,000 of the winner's loot. For where a single ticket holder (estimated on a fairly shortsighted basis to have a wife, two children and no outside income) would take no more than the standard 10% deduction and pay a whopping $67,000 tax, a seven-way split figured on the same basis would net each partner $18,890 and leave the Government a measly $23,000 total. Said the Revenooers last...
Tasty Contract. Elizabethan literature roils with legalisms-Jonson's plays are filled with far more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant...
...another slaver. If the slave balked, Murrell killed him. At one point, Murrell spent a year in jail for horse stealing, where he was branded, whipped and pilloried. He came out determined to take his revenge on the whole South by fomenting a slave revolt-and getting some loot for himself during the fracas. He boasted: "I'll have the pleasure and honor of knowing that by my management I have glutted the earth with more human gore, and destroyed more property, than any other robber who has ever lived in America or in the known world." The uprising...
Horse Factory. She could always start with the silverware. The Pine Room at Calumet Farm, five miles outside Lexington, Ky., glitters from floor to ceiling with equine loot: the seven Kentucky Derby trophies, six Preakness cups, four Jockey Club Gold Cups, 76 Julep Cups representing feature race winners at Keeneland. Mrs. Markey could also auction off some land. Calumet's 846 acres of rolling Kentucky bluegrass are worth some $3,500,000-and that's not even counting the 18-room manor house, 36 outbuildings and 23 miles of white oak fences. The estate was inherited from...